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Rabies can infect all warm blooded animals, including humans. It attacks the central nervous system, causing death. Rabies vaccinations are only available from a veterinarian.
Anthrax, a highly infectious and fatal disease of mammals and humans, is caused by a relatively large spore-forming rectangular shaped bacterium called Bacillus anthracis.

Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary located in Assam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Project Tiger Reserve, An Elephant Reserve as well as Biosphere Reserve.
Manas National Park have an unique identity that makes it very different from the other wildlife sanctuaries of the world that it is a home to some of highly rare and endangered wildlife species such as Red Panda, Pygmy Hog, Golden Langur, the Hispid Hare and the Assam Roofed Top Turtle. Indian tigers and Asiatic Water Buffalo are also found here.

The 10% rule refers to the amount of energy available to the next trophic level.
As we move up an energy pyramid or a trophic level, we can see that less and less of the original energy from the sun is available. Roughly ten percent of the previous trophic level’s energy is available to the level immediately higher up. This is called the ten percent rule.

The Act and the Rules are implemented in India through a decentralized system.
A three tiered structure has been established under the Act at the national, state and local levels.
The Indian researchers neither require prior approval nor need to give prior intimation to SBB for obtaining biological resources for conducting research in India.
In case the results are used for commercial purposes, prior intimation to the State Biodiversity Board is required under Section 7 of the Biological Diversity Act 2002.

Defluoridation of water by the Nalgonda technique is a commonly used household process in areas of endemic fluorosis in villages around Nalgonda(Andhra Pradesh)
Nalgonda Technique involves addition of aluminium salts, lime and bleaching powder followed by rapid mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection.

Crocodilians were threatened in India due to indiscriminate killing for commercial purpose and severe habitat loss until enactment of the Wildlife (Protection) Act.1972. All three species of crocodiles (Gharial, Gavialis gangeticus; Mugger crocodile, Crocodylus palustris and Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus)are found in the river systems of Odisha.

Kanjli is a man made Wetland which was created in 1870 by constructing the headworks across the perennial Bien River, a tributary of the Beas River to provide irrigation facilities to the hinterland.
In 2002, it was recognized by the Ramsar Convention in the List of Wetlands of International Importance.

Myristica swamps, which were once widespread across the Konkan coast, are now a fast-shrinking, fragmented, and endangered ecosystem restricted to small patches found in southern Kerala, Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, Goa, and recently discovered in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
The swamps play a key role in maintaining perennial stream flow and possess higher potential to store carbon than nearby non-swamp forests in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka.

The Committee has been formed under the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017 that were notified vide GSR 1203 (E) dated 26.09.2017 superseding the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010. The National Wetlands Committee (NWC) under the chairpersonship of secretary, MOEF&CC has been constituted vide Rule-6 of the said rules.
To oversee the work carried out by States, the rules stipulate the setting up of a National Wetlands Committee, which will be headed by the MoEFCC Secretary, to monitor implementation of these rules.

India has 2,967 tigers, a third more than in 2014, according to results of a tiger census made public on July 29 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Madhya Pradesh saw the highest number of tigers at 526, closely followed by Karnataka (524) and Uttarakhand (442). Chhattisgarh and Mizoram saw a decline in tiger population and all other States saw a “positive” increase, according to a press statement.