Forest Cover Monitoring and Prediction in A Lesser Himalayan Elephant Landscape

Kushwaha, S. P. S.; Nandy, Subrata; Shah, Manzoor Ahmad; Agarwal, Reshu; Mukhopadhyay, S.

doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i3/510-516

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“…The presence of remnant trees in the fringe villages of Pakke may be especially important for the forest birds that seasonally move from the sanctuary area to fringe area due to lure of seasonal flowering. Since most of the landscape found in the eastern periphery of the Pakke is highly degraded and deforested and finally converted into agriculture fields (Srivastava et al 2002;Kushwaha et al 2018). Similarly, it is also reported that isolated trees and forest patches found in the farmland support critical food resources for altitudinal migrant bird species which move from the Monteverde Reserve Complex down to the Pacific lowlands (Powell and Bjork 1995;Guindon 1996).…”

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Remnant Flowering Trees as Avifaunal Refuge in the Fringe Areas of Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Remnant trees are prominent structures in modified and anthropogenic landscapes globally and avian species and remnant trees, together play an imperative role in preservation of forest ecosystem by providing several services such as pollination, seed dispersal and insect pest predators/defender. In addition, these trees act as the refuges in an anthropogenic landscape to provide ecological functions such as maintaining microclimate, soil nutrients and support species richness and diversity of birds, mammals and insects. This study was aimed to investigate the conservation values of remnant flowering trees occur in the fringe villages of Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India in order to highlight their significance in the conservation of avian species through direct observation method. Through regular observations, we estimated a total of 2826 (45.59 ± 16.02) numbers of bird's individuals from 56 species belonging to 28 families and 9 orders in five flowing tree species, viz. Bombax ceiba (Simolu), Moringa oleifera (Sojina), Erythrina indica (Modar), Cassia renigera (Radhachura) and Bauhunia purpurea (Kanchan) found in the village land. The utmost richness (n = 28 species) of avifauna were recorded in Bombax ceiba. A maximum number of the bird species was recorded from order Passeriformes. Pycnonotus cafer (Red vented bulbul: 31.2%) was recorded as dominant bird species followed by Acridotheres fuscus (Jungle Myna: 11.9%), Saroglossa spilopterus (Spot winged starling: 9.9%), Acridotheres grandis (Great Myna: 8.4%), Zosterops palpebrosus (Oriental white eye: 5.4%) and Sturnia malabarica (Chestnut tailed starling: 5.1%) and remaining bird species were recorded less than 5% during the entire study period. Out of 56 recorded avian species, 55 species recognized as least concern species and one species Psittacula alexandri (Red-breasted Parakeet) which belongs to near threatened (NT) under IUCN categories of conservation. The present findings showed that remnant trees have similar competence to conserve bird species as natural forest of Pakke. Thus, the remnant trees with flowering and fruiting in human modified landscape plays a mutual relationship with surrounding bird diversity and help to support the ecosystem and therefore, plantation of flowering and fruiting trees should be encouraged in fringe villages for not only to increase the aesthetic value of landscape but also to provide quality welfare factors for the avian species conservation.

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Remnant Flowering Trees as Avifaunal Refuge in the Fringe Areas of Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India

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“…Similar to Karnataka (Reddy et al, 2020) and other states (Karanth et al, 2018), implementers in Assam are given clear maximums for compensation amounts and some instruction on the process for verification, but otherwise given essentially no guidance on the application process for claimants, methods for measuring losses, the required format for verification reports, time allowable for settling valid claims, or (again) the main objective of the scheme. Forest Department officials appear to have clarified (at least internally) the application process de facto, and the emphasis on legitimate land ownership might help guard against perverse incentives for land conversion (Bulte & Rondeau, 2007), particularly considering the continued contestation of parts of Sonitpur (Kushwaha et al, 2018). But much else remains unspecified.…”

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“…It is also a major site of human-elephant conflict (Anwaruddin Choudhury, 2004). Between 1924 and 2009, the sub-Himalayan forests of northern Assam lost about 42.5% of their tree cover, including forests used by elephants to move to and from seasonal foraging areas along the Brahmaputra River (Kushwaha, Nandy, Shah, Agarwal, & Mukhopadhyay, 2018). Much of the forest losses in recent decades are associated with ethnic insurgency in northern Sonitpur, as insurgents commandeered and replaced protected forests with agriculture (Hazarika & Saikia, 2013;Kushwaha & Hazarika, 2004;Srivastava, Singh, Singh, Kushwaha, & Roy, 2002).…”

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The de jure and the de facto of the compensation payments system for human-elephant conflict in Sonitpur district, Assam

Gaur¹,

Sekar²,

Baishya³

2023

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Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) leads to losses of human life and property, often in already- marginalized communities. This in turn causes resentment towards and retaliatory action against globally endangered species. Compensation schemes are seen as a valuable reactive tool in mitigating HWC across the world, but there is also widespread acknowledgment that they often do not provide timely or sufficient remedy for HWC in practice. We conduct a case study of the provision of ex-gratia payments for human-elephant conflict in the Sonitpur East and Sonitpur West divisions of Assam, attempting to understand (a) whether the objectives of compensation are clearly delineated in national law or administrative documents or relevant case-law, (b) how the de jure and de facto processes of providing ex-gratia compare, and (c) whether ex-gratia appears to be achieving social justice or conservation objectives. We examine administrative guidelines, case law, and process documents for ex-gratia, as well as conduct qualitative interviews with both government officials and villagers who experienced human-elephant conflict. We conclude that in order to promote social justice and wildlife conservation, the objectives of Assam’s system for compensation in cases of human-wildlife conflict should be made explicit and the administrative process should be clarified and streamlined, and we discuss specific recommendations.

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“…The assessment and forecasting of decadal forest cover changes of forest fragmentation as well as a prediction in Wildlife Sanctuary regions have been the subject of numerous studies by various scholars (Chavan et al, 2018;Kushwaha et al, 2018). It became evident that the researchers were using a range of methods, including the comparison of post-classi cation methods like image ratio, accuracy assessment, image inversion, conventional image variation, image matrix, and manual on-screen digitization of various data products with different spatial scales, to detect LULC changes.…”

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Spatiotemporal Changes of Forest Cover and Land Surface Temperature Using Geo-Spatial Techniques in Talra Wildlife Sanctuary, Shimla, North-Western Himalaya

Thakur

Samant

Verma

2023

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Geophysical parameter such as Land Surface Temperature (LST) plays an important role in studies related to hydrological processes, climate change, Forest Cover Change (FCC) detections, soil moisture estimations, vegetation water stress, etc. Thermal Infrared Sensors (TIRS) for several FCC categories are measured heat signatures. Deforestation, forest fire, grazing, and anthropogenic activities were witnessed in Protected Areas (PAs) forests. For the Single Channel (SC) algorithm and the Split Window (SW) algorithm. The Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM), Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) several time-series satellite data have been employed. The overall analysis of FCC showed a significant reduction (-5.59%) in dense forest areas. Despite an overall decrease in pasture and non-forest areas of about 2.99 Km2 between 2000 and 2021, there was a significant increase in these areas between 2000 and 2021 of 7.25% and 0.22%, respectively. The relative comparison of the LST on various FCC categories obtained from SC and SW algorithms revealed a ± 1 Kelvin (K) average difference in the years 2000, 2011, and 2021. The LST retrieved using the SC algorithm shows a strong negative correlation coefficient with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of R2 = 0.791 in the year 2000 with ⍴ a value of -0.889, 0.750 with ⍴ the value of -0.866 in the year 2011, respectively, whereas the LST obtained using the SW algorithm exhibited a perfect negative Correlation Coefficient (R2 = 0.646 with a ⍴ value of -0.804) with the NDVI for the year 2021.

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Forest Cover Monitoring and Prediction in A Lesser Himalayan Elephant Landscape

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Remnant Flowering Trees as Avifaunal Refuge in the Fringe Areas of Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Remnant Flowering Trees as Avifaunal Refuge in the Fringe Areas of Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India

The de jure and the de facto of the compensation payments system for human-elephant conflict in Sonitpur district, Assam

Spatiotemporal Changes of Forest Cover and Land Surface Temperature Using Geo-Spatial Techniques in Talra Wildlife Sanctuary, Shimla, North-Western Himalaya

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