Forest protection in Central India: do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts?

Agarwal, Shivani; Marathe, Aniruddha; Ghate, Rucha; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish; Nagendra, Harini

doi:10.1007/s10531-017-1344-6

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“…Efforts by the FD, the main governing agency within CCAs, to include local communities have had mixed results. Some efforts have led to elite capture, whereas others have led to decentralization without equitable power distribution, highlighting the importance of strong local institutions (Agarwal et al., 2017; Kumar, 2002).…”

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Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

Schoen

Neelakantan²,

Cushman

et al. 2022

Conservation Biology

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As ecological data and associated analyses become more widely available, synthesizing results for effective communication with stakeholders is essential. In the case of wildlife corridors, managers in human‐dominated landscapes need to identify both the locations of corridors and multiple stakeholders for effective oversight. We synthesized five independent studies of tiger (Panthera tigris) connectivity in central India, a global priority landscape for tiger conservation, to quantify agreement on landscape permeability for tiger movement and potential movement pathways. We used the latter analysis to identify connectivity areas on which studies agreed and stakeholders associated with these areas to determine relevant participants in corridor management. Three or more of the five studies’ resistance layers agreed in 63% of the study area. Areas in which all studies agree on resistance were of primarily low (66%, e.g., forest) and high (24%, e.g., urban) resistance. Agreement was lower in intermediate resistance areas (e.g., agriculture). Despite these differences, the studies largely agreed on areas with high levels of potential movement: >40% of high average (top 20%) current‐flow pixels were also in the top 20% of current‐flow agreement pixels (measured by low variation), indicating consensus connectivity areas (CCAs) as conservation priorities. Roughly 70% of the CCAs fell within village administrative boundaries, and 100% overlapped forest department management boundaries, suggesting that people live and use forests within these priority areas. Over 16% of total CCAs’ area was within 1 km of linear infrastructure (437 road, 170 railway, 179 transmission line, and 339 canal crossings; 105 mines within 1 km of CCAs). In 2019, 78% of forest land diversions for infrastructure and mining in Madhya Pradesh (which comprises most of the study region) took place in districts with CCAs. Acute competition for land in this landscape with globally important wildlife corridors calls for an effective comanagement strategy involving local communities, forest departments, and infrastructure planners.

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Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

Schoen

Neelakantan²,

Cushman

et al. 2022

Conservation Biology

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“…In many places, lack of involvement allows PA management to take decisions without third-party involvement. PA landscapes that enjoy high involvement from both government and NGOs have more coproduced management plans (Agarwal et al 2017). In addition, not all states have functioning Local Advisory Committees (instituted for TRs), Advisory Committees (for wildlife sanctuaries) that the Government of India legally mandates for bottomup inputs (Table 2).…”

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“…The integration of local institutions in decisionmaking is already taking place informally in some parts of the central India. Village involvement is key to restoration efforts or invasive management in the forests of central India (Agrawal and Chhatre 2006;Bawa et al 2007;Beazley 2009;Agarwal et al 2017).…”

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“…The lack of proactive avenues is a critical feature of the nationwide institutional structure that restricts NCCI members from engaging with and anticipating decisions that lead to threats to wildlife and local community well-being. A particular challenge is the frequency of changes in government officials and staff at NGOs (Agarwal et al 2017). Future work within the network might be to build trust and collaboration that would enable involvement in proactive planning.…”

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Pathways towards people-oriented conservation in a human-dominated landscape: the network for conserving Central India

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Rithe²,

Tabor

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Ecosystems and People

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Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand

Agarwal,

Lambin

2024

Reg Environ Change

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Forest protection in Central India: do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts?

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

Pathways towards people-oriented conservation in a human-dominated landscape: the network for conserving Central India

Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand

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