| Sanction Date: | 18.06.2020 | |||
| Project Category | MG | |||
| Year | 2020-2021 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years | |||
| BTA : | BCM | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Ladakh |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | Wildlife Institute of India (WII), P.O. Box 18 Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand-248001 | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun 248 001 | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Bilal Habib |
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| Project Brief Description: | Movement ecology recently emerged as an independent discipline that integrates movement and its effects on animal ecology. It specifically considers individual behavioral responses to environmental variation, while taking into account key life-history traits and evolutionary constraints. Thus, studying movement ecology of mammals in threatened ecosystems gives comprehensive insights on entire ecological processes governing species. In the contemporary era when human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment (termed as Anthropocene), much of the earth's surface has been currently modified for human activities leading to changing patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Thus, effects of anthropogenic footprint on biodiversity has to be estimated for proper management of threatened habitats in a landscape. With increasing human population, overuse of ecosystem services in the IHR is causing habitat fragmentation and loss. These habitats are critical for survival of montane mammals which are exclusively dependent on them. Understanding impacts of future climate change on species distribution will help in formulation of conservation policies to reduce the risks of future biodiversity losses. In the IHR where ecological survey using conventional methods have their limitations and doubts, radiotelemetry is a convincing method to get intensive and comprehensive information about m ammalian species with accuracy. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | The key beneficiaries would be MoEFCC, Government Agencies, Infrastructure Developmental Agencies, Research Institutions and Universities, State Forest Departments, Public groups and local communities of the respective states. |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 1,60,80,000 (Rupees: One crore sixty lakh eighty thousand only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
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• To study the movement patterns of Pallas's cat, Himalayan wolf and Himalayan Marmot with respect to Anthropocene and climate change in the IHR. • To study the spatio-temporal habitat utilization, feeding ecology and life history traits of the selected mammal species in the IHR. • To predict fine scale distribution pattern of the selected mammal species in the IHR based on telemetry data for predicting change under anthropogenic and climate scenarios. |
• Information on movement of selected 3 species with respect to anthropogenic interactions (All districts of Ladakh UT). • Model of animal movement with respect to climate change (3 Nos.). • Distribution, home range, behaviour, activity, habitat utilization and feeding ecology pattern of selected 03 mammal species • Predict areas maps of overlap between high animal movement and human conflict zones (3 Nos.). • Capacity Building of Local and forest Staff ( 50 No from Leh and Kargil) • Knowledge products >9 Nos.: >5 research papers in well reputed journal, 03 policy briefs and 01 Manual) |
• New Database on movement pattern of selected species • Developed animal movement Models and predict area maps • Number of state and national level workshop conducted (Nos./total beneficiaries) • No. of Reports/Research articles/Policy documents prepared and published (Nos.) |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 01 RA-I | @ Rs.47,000/- + HRA | ||
| 2. | 01 SRF | Rs.35,000/-+ HRA | ||
| 3. | 02 Field Assistant | Rs.11,000/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | 24 GPS Satellite Collars with Drop off/ GSM/Iridium Satellite link/ activity/ Mortality and Temperature sensor | 51,00,000/- |
