Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Threats within the Basanta and Laljhadi-Mohana wildlife corridors that connect protected areas in the Terai Arc Landscape were assessed in 2012 and 2014.The threat ranking employed a participatory and multi-stakeholder process with members of government agencies and the community.The team used two different methodologies in 2012 and 2014.In the first assessment in 2012, biodiversity targets and direct threats were identified in a conceptual model of the corridors, and absolute threat ranking was conducted using Miradi software.In 2014, direct threats in the corridors were identified and evaluated using a pairwise ranking approach.Both processes identified the type and level of direct threats in each corridor at each time period.The extent and intensity of direct threats were found to vary between wildlife corridors, between different landscapes and between the two time-periods.In the Basanta corridor, some threats identified in 2012 disappeared or were not prioritised (e.g.use of diclofenac) in 2014 while new threats emerged (e.g.infrastructure development) in the intervening years.In the Laljhadi-Mohana corridor, the level of threats varied (e.g., encroachment was a 'low' threat in 2012, whereas it was a 'high' threat in 2014).Both approaches provided simple ways of identifying and ranking direct threats in planning biodiversity conservation in a wildlife corridor or landscape.
Source: PARKS
Authors: Bijan Gurung, Shant R. Jnawali, Tilak Dhakal, Bhaskar Bhattarai, Gokarna J. Thapa, Eric Wikramanayake
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2808034265