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Wildlife

The winds of change are blowing in India. People are
The Merchant and the Beggar beginning to understand that cutting trees and killing

Once there lived a very rich merchant who lived in a beautiful animals is morally and economically not viable.
mansion. Yet he was greedy and grumpy. He had no friends and However, what really is wildlife? Natural Flora and
lived alone in the big house with the support of 10 servants who Fauna, that is, un-cultivated plants and wild animals
used take care of his palatial realm. Just in front of the beautiful together make wildlife.
house, lived man who owned a tea shop and was very poor, yet
These days, awareness is being spread that we should
happy and blissful. One time the rich man happened to catch
not cut trees and kill animals. This awareness has
bad cold and decided to have a walk in the fresh air. Seeing the
slowly started getting into Indian minds.
rich man sneeze continuously, the tea shop owner quickly
prepared a cup of hot tea and went to the man and spoke in a Since the ecosystem of wildlife is imbalanced in India, Raina Sen - VII C
kind way “Good evening sir! Please have this cup of tea, you will Akshat Bhosale - VI C bad things will continue to happen. However, the
condition of both trees and animals is improving in
feel better. You need not worry a speck about the money, it is on
India, slowly and steadily.
the house!” The merchant took this in a negative way and rudely
denied his offer and retorted, “I don't take food from beggars. The Wings of Change There is no scarcity of wildlife (which includes trees) in
“Saying this he rudely walked of. This incident hurt the beggar India. The reason that now there is less wildlife is
I am tired of waiting
from the core of his heart. He was well educated yet due to his because of hunting of animals, habitat destruction,
being stuck on the verge
poverty he never got a good job. However, he had decided to cutting of trees etc.

Done being a Caterpillar प रवतन
work hard and make his life better. One day suddenly, the
I wish to emerge Recent effort of saving wildlife in India is very
merchant fell badly sick, yet because he was a terrible miser, he
As a beautiful butterfly impressive, though slow. Years back India had या या न बदला...
decided not to spend his money on getting treated and did not
flying free in the world launched operations to save tigers, this operation was
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consult his problem. Soon his problem grew and one day while दन-मह ना-कल डर बदला,
It's all I have dreamt of successful as when it was launched which was 1973
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walking down the stairs he slipped due to head ache and व त क साथ या- या न बदला!
The day I was born there were 268 tigers in India while now there are
tumbled down groaning. His head was hurt badly and blood around 3000.
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Uzair Khaswala - VII C खात थे कल म बर-अम द-गाजर,
started flowing. On top of all that, he had fractured his leg and
Operations to save the elephants have also been भात ह अब तो पा ता, प ज़ा बगर।

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his fever was tremendously worsening the situation. Finally, he
launched. Most likely, India will be able to grow more
reached a well-equipped and expensive hospital in a terrible खलत थे खो खो-सतौ लया-करम,
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trees and increase its animal numbers, but may not fully
state and got himself treated for two whole months on which he अब दन-भर का साथी टल वज़न।
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succeed because hunting, cutting of trees and habitat
had to spend quite a fortune. His ten hired workers were also
destruction still go on.
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demanding their two-month due salary for taking care of the मलने को अपन स रहत थे बताब,
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merchant's house. Compelled to give money to his workers too The government also needs to impose stricter laws and नह कोई अब मलने- मलाने का हसाब।
was a hard job but he somehow, he managed. Gradually, all his punishments on hunters and wildlife destroyers. दखत थे दन भर डा कय क राह,
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money went away and he was almost penniless. Moving back to Bringing back the balance in the ecosystem is in India's
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square one, the tea vendor worked very hard and turned out to hands. नह रह अब कसी क प क चाह।
be successful and wealthy and was the owner of a big company. If these operations to save wildlife continue and छ य म नानी के घर लगत े थे मेले,
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This shows how all of a sudden, a rich man can become and poor poaching and cutting of trees stops then India will अब तो सब रहना चाह अकल-अकल। े
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rich, just with a blow of a wind of change. surely be able to bring up its wildlife numbers. So, we
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उ सव जस मनात थे सार तीज- योहार,
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Akshita Gupta - VI A will wait and see what happens and will hope for the
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best. बदल सोच; य सब ह अब 'व त-बेकार'।
Arjun Parmar - VI C व ान लाया तर क का नभ-उजला,
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व त क साथ-साथ बहत कछ बदला।
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Raima Singh - VIII A Riya Jain - VII B
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