CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 11
Contents .13
List of Tables 15
List of Figures.17
List of Maps.19
1. Background 23
1.1 Ecological Balance.23
1.2 National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary 23
1.2.1 Importance of National Parks 24
1.2.2 Importance of Wildlife Sanctuaries 24
2. Protected Area 24
2.1 Categories of Protected Area 24
2.1.1 Anthropogenic Impacts on Protected Areas 26
2.1.2 Sources of Pressure on Wildlife and Causes for their Extinction 26
2.1.3 Biotic Pressure and their impacts on Natural Resources 26
2.1.4 Biotic Disturbances 26
2. Synopsis.27
3. Literature Study 29
3.1 Barda Wildlife Sanctuary, Porbandar, Gujarat.29
3.2 Threats to the Barda Ecosystem 30
3.3 Solutions benefiting the Barda wildlife Sanctuary : .30
4. Study of Natural Elements 31
4.1 Introduction to Site 31
4.2 Location: 32
4.3 Climate 32
4.4 Rainfall.33
4.5 Elevation .33
4.6 Slope Analysis:.34
4.5 Geology 35
4.6 Soil texture and depth 36
4.7 Hydrology 37
4.7.1 Watershed 38
4.7.2 Water Holes 38
4.8 Vegetation 38
4.8.1 Evergreen vegetation 39
4.8.2 Semi-evergreen Vegetation . 40
4.8.3 Deciduous Forest 40
4.8.4 Scrubland 40
4.8.5 Agriculture 40
4.9 Land use 41
4.10 Animal Habitat 42
4.10.1 Food 42
4.10.2 Cover 42
4.10.3 Space .42
4.10.4 Water 42
4.10.5 Behavior of each animal 43
4.11 Endangered species .44
4.11.1 Food species and their availabilty calender 45
4.11.2 Current scenario of the Giant Squirrel 45
4.12 Avifauna 46
4.12 Soil Susceptibility .47
5. Village 48
5.1 Role and Relationship of Man with Nature 48
5.2 Scenario of Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary 48
5.3 Introduction of villages in the sanctuary 49
5.4 Village Census parameters 50
5.5 Map showing the villages having higher no. of households 52
5.5 Graph showing no. of households and Total population.52
5.5 Comparative Study of Major villages 53
Table 4 Comparative study 54
Source: Wild forest division, Pune Book on Indain Giant squirrel
6. Proposal . 55
6.1 Ahupe Village 55
6.1.1 Natural layers 55
6.2 Bhimashankar Village 58
6.2.1 Natural layers 58
7.References
8. Bibliography
9. Annexure14