scholarly journals Recorded floral and faunal species during tiger census survey in Dudhwa National Park (DNP), Uttar Pradesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Ashem Rahul Singh .
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Park ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Survey Area ◽  
Forest Department ◽  
Total Core Area

As an attempt of biodiversity conservation, the author documents the floral and faunal species in the Dudhwa National park. Most of the species of the park are identified and enlisted by the author as a part of the tiger census conducted by a dual collaboration of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII). Dudhwa is located in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh (UP). The park is divided into seven ranges and four to seven beats as per the records of forest department. Total core area equals 614 sq km, of which 300 sq km is taken as the study area, neglecting the periphery and village close area. Mixed forest (Sal-Jamun) and Phanta (grassland) occupies the survey area.

Challenges of Conserving and Co-Managing Khadimnagar National Park and Ratargul Fresh Water Swamp Forest in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-181
Author(s):  
Md. Mahfuz-Ur-Rahman ◽  
Tanmoy Dey
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Forest Department ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Alternative Sources

National Parks are protected areas conserving all types of flora, fauna and their habitats regardless of generic diversification. In Bangladesh, protected area managers face difficulties to conserve these areas. This study is formulated to find out those existing difficulties against effective co-management of natural resources based on the local people’s perception. A purposive sampling is followed by a semi-structured interview to gather data from the field level of Khadimnagar National Park and Ratargul Fresh Water Swamp Forest from September 2019 to December 2019 by interviewing 100 local people for RFWSF and KNP on the basis of a qualitative research method. Both inhabitants and the Forest Department are found to be responsible for inhibiting the effective management of the subjected areas meanwhile difficulties related to motivation, cordiality, alternative job generation, financial support to management authority, tourism management and resource extraction from forests mainly prevail. To ensure substantial sustainability, both of the actors should come forward to find out a way to get rid of this devastation and to ameliorate the socio-economic condition of these areas. Arranging more conferences to raise motivation, awareness about the forest offenses and generating alternative sources of income can be counted as a strategy to reduce pressure on both forests.

scholarly journals Motivating Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation: A Case of Forest Dwellers in Nameri National Park of Assam-India

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Runumi Das ◽  
Niranjan Das
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Park ◽  
The South ◽  
Conservation Programme ◽  
Work Hour ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
The Right

This paper highlights the implementation of Forest Rights Act to conserving protected areas in the country; Forest Rights Act (2006) has been passed by the parliament of India with dual aims of protecting the right of forest dwellers and at the same time this Act tries to acquire the involvement of forest dwellers to protect forest/protected areas. The main objective of the paper is to determine the factors which influence motivation to spend efforts in terms of work hour for biodiversity conservation in Nameri National Park. A total of 78 numbers of households were interviewed from two forest villages (i.e. Torajan and Dharikati) and two encroached villages (i.e. Rihajuli and Chopaloga) located in the south buffer of Nameri National Park in Assam during March and June of 2021. Respondents in forests village are more willing to spend effort than that of encroacher’s village to conservation. Sex, age, literacy of the respondents and size of land holdings were found to be significantly related to spending time for biodiversity conservation programme. In this paper attempt has been made to emphasize the nature of motivation of the communities towards biodiversity conservation issues.

scholarly journals Seasonal activity pattern of Swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) in Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh, India

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaleem Ahmed ◽  
Jamal A. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Activity Pattern ◽  
National Park ◽  
Time Budget ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Seasonal Activity ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Continuous Feeding ◽  
Swamp Deer

The data on activity pattern and time budget of Swamp deer (Rucervus duvauceli duvauceli) were collected through instantaneous scan sampling from Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh, India Diurnal activity pattern of Swamp deer showed marked reduction in resting in winter as compared to summer. In winter resting in adult males showed polymodal pattern with peaks occurring at different hours of the day and continued throughout the day without any break. Feeding of adult females in winter and summer seasons showed a polymodal pattern with peaks occurring at different hours of the day without break. In yearling males feeding and resting was observed to occur throughout the day during winter season with peaks occurring between 11:00 to 12:00 hours. Yearling females showed continuous feeding throughout the day with peaks in different times in both the seasons. The seasonal distribution of activity patterns of the fawns showed that feeding was slightly more in summer as compared to winter. In time budget, of the expenditure on different activities, resting accounted for 63.77% and feeding 24.70%. In both the seasons resting was the major portion of their activity. Analysis showed that in all age and sex categories of Swamp deer in the Dudhwa NP, resting dominated on all other activities. The observation on endangered Swamp deer indicates synchronization in activity only in the feeding in the morning and evening hours and resting throughout the day.

scholarly journals Conserving Rajaji and Corbett National Parks – the elephant as a flagship species

Oryx ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. T. Johnsingh ◽  
Justus Joshua
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Flagship Species ◽  
North West

One of India's five major populations of elephants lives in north-west India, where 90 per cent of the total 750 elephants occur in Rajaji and Corbett National Parks and adjacent reserve forests. This 3000-sq-km habitat is also home to many other endangered species. While the 520-sq-km core area of Corbett National Park is free from human impact, the rest of the range is subject to increasing pressures, both from the pastoral Gujjar community within the forests and villagers outside. The elephant habitat has been fragmented by hydrological development work and human-elephant conflict is increasing. The authors recommend measures that need to be implemented to ensure that the elephants and other wildlife of the area are conserved.

Do Coniferous Plantations Have an Importance for Biodiversity Conservation? Bats as Indicators in the Foreste Casentinesi National Park

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Campedelli ◽  
Guglielmo Londi ◽  
Simonetta Cutini ◽  
Dino Scaravelli ◽  
Pamela Priori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Park ◽  
Coniferous Plantations

scholarly journals Temporal evolution of bushmeat traded in High Niger National Park, Guinea, West Africa

Oryx ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lucie Duonamou ◽  
Alexandre Konate ◽  
Jiliang Xu ◽  
Tatyana Humle
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Rural Markets ◽  
Bushmeat Trade

Abstract The High Niger National Park is one of the most important protected areas for biodiversity conservation in Guinea. This study examined the temporal evolution of the bushmeat trade in three rural markets in the Park and in the nearest urban centre, Faranah. We collected data in markets during August–November 2017 in three villages around the Mafou core area of the Park and in Faranah, and compared these data with equivalent published data from the same rural areas in 2001 and 2011 and from Faranah in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2011. Across all study periods, mammals predominated in the bushmeat trade. In rural markets we noted a marked increase in the number of carcasses and biomass offered for sale from 2001 onwards, whereas in Faranah there were no differences over time other than a peak in 1996. Overall, there was an increase in the sale of smaller sized species (< 10 kg), and a marked increase in the sale of species that forage on crops, including the green monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus and warthog Phacochoerus africanus, in spite of religious taboos against the consumption of primates and Suidae. Green monkeys were not sold in markets during the 1990s but were the dominant species in Faranah in 2011 and 2017. Our findings suggest a marked shift in traded species, associated with crop protection by farmers and economic incentives to kill and trade crop-foraging species. This study highlights the value of a longitudinal perspective for investigating the dynamic relationship between local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.

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