Human - Wildlife conflict and forest fragmentation linkages in southern western ghats, India (Record no. 6134)

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Personal name Aditi Tomar (91717002)
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Title Human - Wildlife conflict and forest fragmentation linkages in southern western ghats, India
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Extent MPhil EI 2017-2018
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General note The Western Ghats are biologically rich and diverse hill ranges that run along the west coast of<br/>India from the river Tapti in the north to the southern tip of India. It covers an area of 1,60,000 sq<br/>km which is just under 6% of the land area of India. The present study covers Kerala, Tamil Nadu<br/>and Karnataka portions of Southern Western Ghats with an area of 94882.92 sq km. Southern<br/>Western Ghats are facing tremendous pressure because of degradation, deforestation and<br/>conversion of forested land into plantation and cropland. The main reason behind the pressure is<br/>change in land use which lead to fragmentation. Fragmentation is basically landscape level process<br/>in which large forest area is divided into smaller, isolated patches. Human activities for other land<br/>use like agriculture or plantation has the most severe cause of fragmentation and biodiversity loss<br/>in any area. The objective of this study is to estimate the land use and the extent of fragmentation<br/>in Southern Western Ghats and to analyze the human animal conflict associated with the<br/>fragmentation pattern of southern Western Ghats using Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS and GRASS GIS<br/>software. Population density has been analyzed to understand social status and integrated with land<br/>use pattern. The land use analysis shows horticulture as predominating category in Western Ghats<br/>region of Kerala covering 29.75% of area. The maximum area is covered by cropland with 31.20%<br/>in Tamil Nadu and along with Karnataka having 30.55% of the total area. Forest intactness is<br/>measured by the proportion of four spatial patterns i.e. core, perforated, edge, interior and patches.<br/>The total forest cover of the southern Western Ghats is 39.2%. The forest cover for each state is,<br/>Karnataka has 17.6% of the total area, Kerala has 12.3% of the total area whereas Tamil Nadu has<br/>9.5% of the total area in the southern Western Ghats. Linking the fragmentation result with human<br/>animal conflict, it was observed that with the more fragmented area, more of the human animal<br/>conflicts are present, especially near protected areas or national parks like Bandipur National park,<br/>Wayanad Sanctuary, BRT, Nilambur forest division and The Nilgiri. The major conflict animals<br/>are tigers, leopards and Elephants. This emphasizes the need to maintain continuity of intact forests<br/>with native species (enriched with food and fodder species) as well as water bodies in the animal<br/>corridors to prevent the losses associated with the human-animal conflicts. <br/> <br/>
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Degree type MPhil EI
Name of granting institution 2017-2018
Year degree granted INT
-- Dr. Jaishankar Nair
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Topical term or geographic name entry element LANDSAT
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Topical term or geographic name entry element HUMAN - WILDLIFE CONFLICT
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