Back From The Brink Class 8 English ICSE Extra Question And Answers

Back from the Brink BY Rita Bannerjee And Maya Khosla Class 8 English ICSE Extra Question And Answers

1) Where deep in the forest Tai had been there? What had he been doing? What did he find there?

Tai had been deep in a dense forest of North East India.

Tai had been there deep in the forest to hunt animals and birds. He belonged to the Nyshi tribe, Nyshi tribe were one of those tribe who had been hunting for
generations.

Tai extracted a dead red-bellied squirrel from the top of the tree which was trapped in a handmade trap, he had set earlier.

2) In how much time did Tai slid down from the tree? Who took the
dead squirrel?

Tai unshoed himself and grasped the trunk tightly with his arms and legs and
climbed nine meters high to extract the red-bellied squirrel from the trap he had set earlier but unfortunately slipped and fell down to the ground in less than thirty seconds.

Maga, one of the tribal companions took the squirrel and kept it in the backpack.

3) What did the companions point out for the cameras? How did they cross the river? Which sound did Jarjo make?

After the squirrel, the companions pointed out another trap they placed on
their way.

Heading towards the next trap with cameras in hand, they had to cross the river by the way of a bridge made of a single tree trunk.

Jarjo, one of the tribal companions tried to make the sound of a distressed male fawn deer just to attract the mother deer.

4) Till which time did they walk? What did the Nyshi companions prepare?

Filming the three men they walked until the evening before settling down. They
were heading with a speed much slower than expected due to the dense forest crowd around, it was impossible to see further than a few meters ahead.

Setting down after the continuous work throughout the day, the Nyshi companions brewed black tea for all and a small fire to sit around.

5) What did the author do in 2002? Why was she not confident about her work?

In 2002, the author and the group were filming the rehabilitation of two Himalayan black bear cubs who were taken care of in an orphanage. They were hunted in the Pakke National Park in Arunachal Pradesh.

The author and her group knew about the plan and even with a successful location, they couldn’t stop the bears from being hunted.

6) In which state hunting is a common thing? Which tribes hunt and for what do they hunt?

Hunting is common in seven North-Eastern states of India – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

People who belong to the Nyshi tribes have been hunting the forest for generations. Theanimals they hunt provides foods and bones, furs and feathers for decorations and rituals for their festivals.

7) What did the tribals realize about hunting? Which animals were sold as dead meat and at what price?

The tribals realized that the demand of the animals and birds they hunt were
growing steadily. They also realized that the forest was going silent, due to the frequent and vast hunting of animals and now there was only an empty sky left where the wild birds used to fly.

Animalslike hornbills, barbets, civets, squirrels and many more were ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 5000 as dead meat, a barking deer was sold for Rs 6000.

8) What are the consequences of wild meat market?

The wild meat market could only mean that the forests were going silent.
Numbers of animals and birds were reduced in the forest and the only thing left
was the empty sky where the wild birds used to fly. The very next victim of hunting would be the forest itself. The wildlife population of the forest was reduced.

9) What was the main purpose of their making this documentary? Elaborate.

A document was made for the extent of hunting and to determine whether there was any hope for the Future of the wildlife in the northeast because due to frequent hunting and the wild meat market the wildlife populations were reduced and only the empty sky was left. For executing the documentary, they used to spent their time with people from different tribes, attend their festivals where they also witnessed the traditional use of the animal parts.

10) Acquaint us with the logic of the young village boy about his hunting. What kind of mind setup does it reflect?

The young boy hunted a monkey and carried that with him as he wanted to use the fur to make his new dagger case. As he was supposed to attend a marriage party he wanted his dagger case to be the best of all or else it would have been a
matter of prestige for him.

The young boy was cruel in some way, he was much more conscious about what others think that made him get the monkey killed for his dagger case just to please the people.

11) In Chizami village and Nagaland, how is there a difference between the old people and the teenage about their knowledge of animals?

The older hunters had a huge knowledge about almost all the animals and also
about their habitats, foods consumed, smell so they could easily identify the animals from their photographs. The younger hunters knew very less about the animals whereas the teenage boys had rarely seen any mammals. There was a huge difference in their knowledge about the animals and this was due to the decline in wildlife proportion.

12) In January 2007 what did the people of Ranchi decide unanimously and what was the effect of it?

In 2007, the tribal people of Ranchi arrived at a unified understanding to ban
hunting for three years and realized that this was the only way to reverse the
situation or depletion. Earlier too in Nagaland, the youths took upon themselves to ban hunting and they managed to sustain the ban for ten years to revive the wildlife population. These encouraged the tribal people, the hunters were ready to become wildlife guides.

13) How people in Manas in Assam reflect a sustainable mind setup for saving wild animals as they changed them from hunters to wildlife guides?

Due to the vast depletion of wildlife populations in forests, the tribal people
decided to ban hunting. In Manas Assam, the ex-poachers have turned themselves into forest guides putting their all knowledge about the forest and its
inhabitants to revive the wildlife population. They took the steps towards the more sustainable future. They proved and positively supported for processing and preserving our forest and all creatures.

14) How does the lesson point out the issue of depletion wildlife and at the same time, this shows a solution to the problem?

People from different tribes have been hunting for generations. The vast hunting of animals and the wild meat market led to the silent forest and the empty sky. Due to the crisis of wildlife, they were at high demand in the market. Realizing the dead situation of the forest the tribals themselves arrived at a solution, they decided to ban hunting to revive the wildlife population. The hunters turned themselves to guides putting all their knowledge for the betterment.

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