Disclaimer note - WWF - Pakistan
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Detailed Ecological Assessment Report 2008 – Keenjhar Lake<br />
Chotiari Reservoir and Keenjhar Lake had the highest averaged disturbance<br />
factor against the species that were recorded there. Though this is an arbitrary<br />
scoring it does give an indication over the overall threat to large mammals at<br />
each site. Looking at general issues over the sites, Table 41 lists all the potential<br />
threats and attributes scores to them (ranging from 1 to 5, see legend below<br />
Table 38) across the sites. Figure 21 gives the aggregated score for all sites.<br />
Table 38 – Threats ranking for large mammals at sites<br />
S. Nature of Threats Keti Keenjha Chotiari Pai Keti<br />
No.<br />
Bunder r Lake<br />
Forest Shah<br />
1 Food competition with livestock 1 1 1 4 1<br />
2 Disease transmission from<br />
livestock<br />
1 1 2 2 1<br />
3 Habitat removal / degradation 1 3 2 4 3<br />
4 Wood cutting 2 1 1 4 4<br />
5 Lack of awareness 3 3 3 3 3<br />
6 Killing of problem species / pests 2 4 2 2 2<br />
7 Poisoning of animals 1 1 2 1 1<br />
8 Hunting Pressure 1 5 5 3 3<br />
9 Hunting with dogs 0 2 1 4 1<br />
10 Use of fire arms 0 5 4 4 3<br />
11 Live trapping 1 3 3 3 4<br />
12 Dominance of feral dogs 5 4 3 3 2<br />
13 Water pollution 1 1 1 0 0<br />
14 Presence of fish farms 0 4 3 0 0<br />
15 Entanglement of cetaceans in<br />
fishing gears<br />
1 0 0 0 0<br />
16 Weak enforcement of wildlife<br />
laws<br />
3 5 5 5 5<br />
17 Law and order situation 0 0 0 0 5<br />
18 Natural threats 1 0 0 0 4<br />
Total score 24 43 38 42 42<br />
1= low, 2 = medium, 3 = average, 4= significant, 5 = high<br />
Figure 21 – Aggregated score for disturbance factors across sites<br />
Aggregated scoring<br />
50<br />
45<br />
40<br />
35<br />
30<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
Keti<br />
Bunder<br />
Keenjhar<br />
Lake<br />
Chotiari Pai<br />
Forest<br />
Keti Shah<br />
<strong>WWF</strong> <strong>Pakistan</strong> – Indus for All Programme Page 125 of 188<br />
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