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A Socio-Economic Survey of the Singchung Bugun Village Community Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India


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1 Wildlife Conservation Society – India Program and National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560 065, India
2 Earth Institute Fellow, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia Univers ity, New York 10027, United States
3 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, United States
 

Community-managed lands often lack vital baseline information that assesses both natural resource dependence, as well as perceptions of power, involvement and support in management. We interviewed 171 house-holds from 16 villages in the buffer of the Sin gchung Bugun Village Community Reserve (SBVCR) in Arunachal Pradesh, India. In total, 68% stated that SBVCR would be beneficial to wildlife and in terms of ecosystem services, and 45% expressed support for its formation. However, 76% identified multiple threats to the Reserve, including forest fires, h unting and agricultural expansion. Different parts of the Reserve were identified as being important for resource extraction, non-extractive uses and the need to be di sturbance-free (with varying overlaps across these areas), thus calling for adaptive management.

Keywords

Adaptive Management, Biodiversity Hot-Spot, Conservation Measures, Community Reserve.
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Authors

Binod Borah
Wildlife Conservation Society – India Program and National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560 065, India
Nandini Velho
Earth Institute Fellow, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia Univers ity, New York 10027, United States
Umesh Srinivasan
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, United States

Abstract


Community-managed lands often lack vital baseline information that assesses both natural resource dependence, as well as perceptions of power, involvement and support in management. We interviewed 171 house-holds from 16 villages in the buffer of the Sin gchung Bugun Village Community Reserve (SBVCR) in Arunachal Pradesh, India. In total, 68% stated that SBVCR would be beneficial to wildlife and in terms of ecosystem services, and 45% expressed support for its formation. However, 76% identified multiple threats to the Reserve, including forest fires, h unting and agricultural expansion. Different parts of the Reserve were identified as being important for resource extraction, non-extractive uses and the need to be di sturbance-free (with varying overlaps across these areas), thus calling for adaptive management.

Keywords


Adaptive Management, Biodiversity Hot-Spot, Conservation Measures, Community Reserve.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv118%2Fi9%2F1415-1419