Conserving wildlife wealth of Patharia Hills Reserve Forest, Assam, India: A critical analysis

Talukdar, Nazimur Rahman; Choudhury, Parthankar

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2017.02.002

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“…Consequently, the wildlife is facing numerous threats over time 48 . In 2016, the forest o cials reported a case of illegal entry and cutting of trees at 24 th Mile Camp under Sonai-Rupai WLS 49 .…”

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Assessing the tropical forest cover change in northern parts of Sonitpur and Udalguri district of Assam, India

Mahato

Nimasow

et al. 2021

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Sonitpur and Udalguri district of Assam possess rich tropical forests with equally important faunal species. The Nameri National Park, Sonai-Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary, and other Reserved Forests are areas of attraction for the tourists and wildlife lovers. However, these protected areas are reportedly facing the problem of encroachment and large-scale deforestation. So, this study attempts to estimate the forest cover change in the area through integrating the remotely sensed data of 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 with Geographic Information System. The Maximum Likelihood algorithm based supervised classification shows acceptable agreement between the classified image and the ground truth data with an overall accuracy of about 96% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.95. The results reveal a forest cover loss of 7.47% from 1990 to 2000 and 7.11% from 2000 to 2010. However, there was a slight gain of 2.34% in forest cover from 2010 to 2020. The net change of forest to non-forest was 195.17 km2 in the last forty years. The forest transition map shows a declining trend of forest remains forest till 2010 and a slight increase after that. There was a considerable decline in the forest to non-forest (11.94% to 3.50%) from 2000-2010 to 2010-2020. Further, a perceptible gain was also observed in the non-forest to the forest during the last four decades. The overlay analysis of forest cover maps show an area of 460.76 km2 (28.89%) as forest (unchanged), 764.21 km2 (47.91%) as non-forest (unchanged), 282.67 km2 (17.72%) as deforestation and 87.50 km2 (5.48%) as afforestation. The study found hotspots of deforestation in the closest areas of National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary, and Reserved Forests due to encroachments for human habitation, agriculture, and timber/fuelwood extractions. Therefore, the study suggests an early declaration of these protected areas as Eco-Sensitive Zone to control the increasing trends of deforestation.

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Assessing the tropical forest cover change in northern parts of Sonitpur and Udalguri district of Assam, India

Mahato

Nimasow

et al. 2021

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“…The participants in the game workshops, however, have no real-life experience in growing and harvesting rubber themselves. Human-wildlife conflicts are prevailing in Assam, especially elephants as the main crop-raiders [57]. The vicinity of Kaziranga National Park is perceived by the players as extra risk to investing in rubber plantations with fencing investments being prohibitive for the small-scale farmers.…”

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Exploring Livelihood Strategies of Shifting Cultivation Farmers in Assam through Games

Bos¹,

Cornioley²,

Dray³

et al. 2020

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Understanding landscape change starts with understanding what motivates farmers to transition away from one system, shifting cultivation, into another, like plantation crops. Here we explored the resource allocation strategies of the farmers of the Karbi tribe in Northeast India, who practice a traditional shifting cultivation system called jhum. Through a participatory modelling framework, we co-developed a role-playing game of the local farming system. In the game, farmers allocated labour and cash to meet household needs, while also investing in new opportunities like bamboo, rubber and tea, or the chance to improve their living standards. Farmers did embrace new options where investment costs, especially monetary investments, are low. Returns on these investments were not automatically re-invested in further long-term, more expensive and promising opportunities. Instead, most of the money is spend on improving household living standards, particularly the next generation’s education. The landscape changed profoundly based on the farmers’ strategies. Natural ecological succession was replaced by an improved fallow of marketable bamboo species. Plantations of tea and rubber became more prevalent as time progressed while old practices ensuring food security were not yet given up.

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“…The region falls under two global important hotspots viz, Indo-Burma and Himalyan [7,8] . The region is very rich in wild flora and fauna because of topographic condition, high rainfall and congenial environment [9] . However, from the last a few decades wildlife of the region is facing numerous threats.…”

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“…This reserve forest has a significant diversity of species and it is the last hope of wild Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) in Barak valley districts of southern Assam. Due to lack of research and management activities, many animals have already become extinct and those which are available are facing numerous threats [9] . In order to assess status of the available pachyderm species in the area, the present study has been carried out with special focus on status, age, and sex of Asiatic elephants.…”

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Population structure of wild Asiatic elephant in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest, Karimganj, India: A plea for conservation

Talukdar¹,

Barbhuiya²,

Choudhury³

2017

J. Entomol. Zool. Stud.

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Population estimation of wild animal is necessary for having an idea of their status which is helpful for having conservation related decisions. In most studies, population estimation of large size animal is done by line transacts, block count, dung count method etc. which though are suitable to large areas but in small areas those method provides biased results due to limitation of methods. With a view to determine the population status, age and sex of Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), we employed total count in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest (RF). Besides, semi-structure interviews were conducted, in which the respondents were fringe villagers, forest staffs, hunters and elderly people. A total of seven individuals of E. maximus were encountered throughout the study. Male and female ratio observed is 0:7; while adult, sub adult and juvenile ratio is 6:1:0. Both corridor and habitats were found under serious threat; subsequently Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is on increase. Ceasing developing activities, commercial felling of tress, extending legal protection of corridors and improvement of status of Reserve Forest to Wildlife Sanctuary has been suggested.

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Conserving wildlife wealth of Patharia Hills Reserve Forest, Assam, India: A critical analysis

Cited by 57 publications

References 18 publications

Assessing the tropical forest cover change in northern parts of Sonitpur and Udalguri district of Assam, India

Assessing the tropical forest cover change in northern parts of Sonitpur and Udalguri district of Assam, India

Exploring Livelihood Strategies of Shifting Cultivation Farmers in Assam through Games

Population structure of wild Asiatic elephant in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest, Karimganj, India: A plea for conservation

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