Talk:List of protected areas of India

Other Protected area by local NGO's & Nature Clubs
There is one place I know of where a Nature club is working on maintaining the protected area |Gavier Lake Surat. If there are any such other places we can add such section in the article. Yndesai (talk) 12:22, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

No copyvio
Data has been mostly copied from Ministry of Environment & Forests site and hence is in public domain --Plane Mad 11:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That does not necessarily make it public domain. It is PD because it is information, and information cannot be copyrighted. Indian government websites are copyrighted, but what is copyrighted is the style, wording and presentation of text. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  15:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Updated PA list
An updated source of the PA list is the National Wildlife Database Cell, WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA DEHRADUN, (position as on April 23, 2007), retrieved 7/25/2007 LIST OF PROTECTED AREAS. This may lead to some modification of List of protected areas in India and associated lists and PAs which I can not do.-Marcus 10:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Where is map of protected areas of India?
--Kaiyr (talk) 16:55, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Wildlife sanctuaries of India
As this page is very long, and as the list of Wildlife sanctuaries of India is also at that article, I am being bold and removing it from here, with appropriate linkage. --Bejnar (talk) 19:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I actually removed the table. I'm doing a lot of editing in the Wildlife sanctuaries of India article to fix redlinks, find the articles on the sanctuaries (there are actually quite a lot of them), etc., and this table is now out of date. There is no point in keeping two identical tables. I am not, at this time, trying to determine whether all the items in the Wildlife sanctuaries of India article belong there. Some of them are called Tiger Sanctuaries (or similar), and may belong in the Tiger Reserve section, but since the type of sanctuary is often not shown, it's hard to tell until we get full names in the table.
 * IMHO, this article should be split into its constituent tables, each of which is long enough to be a pain to look through or edit. The entire article is way to long to be manageable. Don Lammers (talk) 18:38, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Other duplicated sections
✅ I just did the same thing for zoos, pointing to List of zoos in India. There is no point in maintaining two separate lists, which will never, ever, be consistent with each other.

✅ I'm going to do it for "Tiger reserves" as well, as the article Tiger reserves of India is far more complete.

✅ National parks too. The list here was 8 short of List of national parks of India.

✅ Biosphere reserves too. The list here was the same as Biosphere reserves of India, but there is no point maintaining it in two places.

Just a comment... Many sections in this article (though fewer and fewer now) are duplicated elsewhere with only slightly different format (for instance, many states have their own "List of protected areas"). This just causes extra work for editors, guarantees that there will be missing pieces somewhere (since nobody is going to know all the places they need to add things), and is much more difficult for the reader (who can't figure out what is correct). This article should really be merged into the constituent locations and (where there is no main article) into "Protected areas of India". I am not prepared to propose this officially at this time, but the current article structure guarantees inconsistencies and conflicts. Don Lammers (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Manually numbered tables?
Are you kidding? I was going to remove a duplicate item (Rajiv Gandhi NP is under both that name and its WP name of Nagahole NP), and realized that I had to renumber the whole table. So I didn't do it (maybe some other day). Is there some significance to the numbers? If there is, it should explain in the lead so those of us without insider knowledge will know why. Don Lammers (talk) 23:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)