| Sanction Date: | 21-12-2018 | |||
| Project Category | MG | |||
| Year | 2018-2019 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 9 Months project extension | |||
| BTA : | Skill Development & Capacity Building | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
IHR |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | J & K Wildlife Protection Department | |||
| 2. | Centre for Research on Development (CROD) | |||
| 3. | Wildlife Research and Conservation Foundation (WRCF) | |||
| 4. | Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Kathikeyan Vasudevan CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), Attapur Hyderguda, Hyderabad |
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| Project Brief Description: | Forest biodiversity includes, multitude of plants, animals and microorganisms and it harbours two thirds of plant species and provides home for large number of animals. It also provides various ecosystem services such as, reservoirs of drinking water, resilience to climate change, natural disasters and provides us with nutrition. They are the source for more than 5,000 commercially-traded products that are food, pharmaceuticals, timber and clothing. The health of forests and the benefits of ecosystem services are tied to diversity between species, the genetic diversity within species, and the diversity of forest types (SBSTTA, 2015). Therefore biodiversity conservation and forest management have several common and coterminous goals. While biodiversity conservation as an objective has gained importance in the last two decades, forest as a resource was being managed under national policies for more than 150 years. Before this time, traditional knowledge and cultural instruments were used to manage forest resources by humans. As human societies grow and transition from one societal makeup to another, constant adjustments need to be made within, keeping in mind the desired goal of biodiversity conservation. These transitions are never easy, and several progressive measures should be taken to hand-hold organizations, local communities, and engage with them in ways that would align them to meet the desired goal. This project is one such attempt, where capacity will be build within local communities and organizations for sustainable livelihood in Kashmir Himalaya. We will achieve this with technological interventions and knowledge available on the best practices in wildlife conservation. Himalayan range has barriers and corridors that influenced the dispersal of flora, fauna and their endemism (Singh and Banyal 2012). It also influenced an important climate change by establishing the monsoon regime in the Indian subcontinent (Molnar et al. 1993). Since, this region constitutes the confluence of three biogeographic realms, viz., Palaearctic, Africo-tropical and Indo-Malayan (Mani 1974; Parwez and Ilyas 2012), the Himalaya provided diversity of habitats that are occupied by evolutionary relics as well as recently evolved species. Northwest Himalaya and high elevation Himalaya in the east have Palaearctic elements (Das, 1966; Mani 1974). At low elevations in the Himalayas, fauna are oriental in origin. In contrast to this, Palaearctic species are dominant in the high elevations (Borkin, 1999). The Himalaya is the most populated mountain chain in the world and is home to nearly 124 million people (Bhatia et al., 1998). This project will focus on the Great Himalayan ranges in the north and north-east, and the adjacent Kashmir Valley. The project will: (i) create a road map for the recovery of Cervus elaphus hunglu using various assisted reproduction technologies; (ii) create trained personnel in the region would be engaged in wildlife population management; (iii) create enhanced access to technologies that improve livelihood of people. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Department, Students of University of Kashmir, Hazratbal and Local people in and around Dachigam |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 3,40,95,000/- (Rupees: Three Crore Forty Lakh Ninety Five Thousand only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| To implement programs for the conservation of Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu) using assisted reproduction technologies. | New conservation Strategies of Hangul with enhanced access to new Assisted Reproduction Technologies | Conservation Strategies of Hangul (No.) |
| To assess the carnivore population (leopards and black bear) using non-invasive DNA based methods by involving the management team and local people | Assessment report/papers of the population of carnivores (leopard and black bear) using non-invasive DNA based techniques | The number of carnivore population assessed (Nos.) |
| To screen livestock and wild ungulates for diseases and develop protocols for surveillance and monitoring | Method/Manual on screening of diseases of wild ungulates and domestic livestock | The database generated (Nos.) |
| Provide training to scientists, forest department staff and skills to the local institutions to serve as referral centres for wildlife forensics (both plant and animals) using DNA based technologies | Training on population estimation and animal restraint techniques (30 Scientists, officials) | The diseases of wild ungulates and domestic livestock screened (Nos.) |
| Green skilling of students on advanced methods in biotechnology (100 students) | ||
| No. of Awareness Raising/ Capacity Building (No. Researchers/Student, No. of Scientist, and Total No. of Beneficiaries); | ||
| No. of Reports/Research articles/Policy documents/Manual prepared and published (Nos.) |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | Tanushree Srivastava | PhD, Wildlife Biology | Research Associate | @ Rs.47,000/- + HRA |
| 2. | Momin John | MSc Zoology | Junior Research Fellow | @ 31,000/- |
| 3. | Javaid Hameed | MSc Zoology | Junior Research Fellow | @ 31,000/- |
| 4. | Chandan Kumar Verma | MSc Zoology | Junior Research Fellow | @ 31,000/- |
| 5. | N. Sneha | MSc Zoology | MSc Microbiology | @ 31,000/- |
| 6. | Ashish Jha | PhD | Junior Research Fellow | @ 31,000/- |
| 7. | Anupama Sekhar | MSc Zoology | Junior Research Fellow | @ 31,000/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Camera traps-30 nos, GPS-4 nos, Refrigerator-1 nos, Freezer-20- 1 nos, Liquid N2 containers-2 nos, Micro pipettes- 1 set, Workstation-1 nos, Temperature Data loggers-20 nos, Binocular-1 nos, Compound Micro Scope with camera-1 nos, Warming plate for lab work-1 nos, Centrifuge- 1 nos, Biosafety cabinet-1 nos, Spotting scope with tripod-1 nos. | 25,00,000/- |
