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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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