| Sanction Date: | 26-02-2018 | ||||
| Project Category | MG | ||||
| Batch Year | 2017-2018 | ||||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 3 Months Extension | ||||
| BTA : | Biodiversity Conservation and Management | ||||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Indian Trans Himalaya Regions Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir) Lahul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) Gangotri and Nanda Devi National Park (Uttarakhand) |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: |
Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Chandrabani Dehradun |
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| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | Roles & Responsibilities | ||
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Navdanya Trust, 105, Rajpur Road, Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Training and capacity building programmes for local communities, institutions and administrations |
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| Lead Proponent: | Dr. V.P. Uniyal Professor & Scientist-F Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Post Box 18, Chandrabani Dehradun |
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| Project Brief Description: | The Trans Himalayan Region (THR) is highly sensitive to impacts of traditional pastoralism and agro-pastoralism (Handa 1994, Schaller 1999). Moreover these the THR are under pressures of global climate change and increasing shift of agro-pastoralism to agrarian activities from. Information about effects of such alteration on animal distribution, especially about the insects, is scant and rarely collected and analyzed in a systematic manner. Recently due to major climatic changes in the world, a drastic change in the ecological patterns and processes have occurred which have pronounced impact in high-altitude areas of the Himalayan Region. The major observable impacts of climate change phenomenon on the Himalayas are shifting of snowline, drying up of streams and water sources, melting of glaciers, increased occurrences of disasters like floods, forest fires, landslides, cloud bursts,erratic rainfall and precipitation pattern, increased temperature etc. These changes have an impact on the overall functioning of the Trans Himalayan ecosystem and a scientific study of is needed to address and mitigate the effects of the present and emerging consequences of climate change and shifting land uses. The present shifting patterns of land use in the THR can have dramatic effects on wildlife and humans. The THR forms a refuge for rare herbivore guild that depends on sparsely dense resources. They share these pastures with domestic herbivores. However, increasing road networks and changing land use is not only leading to over exploitation of natural pasture lands but also hampering the regeneration cycles of the disconnected patches due to the loss in regular migration of nomadic communities in the THR. | ||||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | � G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment & Sustainable Development, Almora � Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun � Forest Research Institute of India, Dehradun � Forest Department, Himachal Pradesh � Forest Department Jammu & Kashmir � Forest Department, Uttarakhand � Local communities and youth of the study site |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 Years): | Click Here | ||||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 88,43,680/- (Rupees Eighty Eight Lakh Forty Three Thousand Six Hundred Eighty only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| Assessment � Impact of land use changes on the pollinators and the risks associated with the loss of pollination services; | Scientific database and maps correlating impact of shifting land use and agro-pastoralism on the pollinator diversity for landscape in 3 states; | New Database/ Datasets (Nos); |
| Adaptive management � Identifying the best management practices and technologies to overcome declines in pollinators; | Improving skills and capacity building at individual and community level throughout the landscape (all 6 districts) in managing the habitat usage; | No. of maps and templates generated regarding pollinator services and practices with key findings in form of region-specific Best practices/ Models (Nos.); |
| Capacity Building � Build and strengthen alliances and expertise to increase the benefits from pollination; | Compendium of best practices to overcome declines in pollinators | No of best practices documented; |
| Mainstreaming � Supporting national plans for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators, and increasing the awareness of governments, industry and the public. | Report/s to identify the pollinator diversity of the region and also provide mitigative measures to conserve them and their habitats. | No. of awareness raising/ capacity building programmes on the identified dynamics for the region (No. of Rural Youth, No. of Women, No. of Farmers and Total No. of Stakeholders Benefitted), including Income generation/ benefits statistics (Rs./ person); |
| Policy/ strategic framework/ draft(s) for assisting the decision-making in the target/ identified area; | ||
| Other Publications and Knowledge Products (Nos.). |
| S.No. | Name | Qualification | Designation | Salary |
| 1. | Agni Chandra | M.Phil | Project Biologist | 24,000/- +HRA |
| 2. | Mona Chauhan | M.Sc | Project Biologist | 24,000/- +HRA |
| 3. | Pooja Kumari | M.Sc. | Project Assistant | 10,000/- +HRA |
| 4. | Vandana | M.Sc | Project Assistant | 10,000/- +HRA |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment | Use of Equipment | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | HP Business workstation Z4G4 | 1,84,711/- | |
| 2. | UPS 1000 VA | 10,000/- | |
| 3. | Garmin GPS Etrex-20x (2) | 27,000 /- | |
| 4. | Nikon D500 | 1,97,400/- | |
| 5. | Dell Laptop | 1,10,439/- |
