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Detailed Ecological Assessment Report 2008 – Keenjhar Lake<br />
4.1.8 Assessment of level of threats to mammals at different study sites<br />
Various threats to different mammals were identified at five different study sites<br />
that include; habitat destruction, illegal hunting, poaching, live trapping, food<br />
competition, lack of awareness, law and order situation, weak enforcement of<br />
wildlife laws etc. Based on indirect and direct observations in the field and after<br />
interviewing different people from local communities and wildlife watchers and<br />
forest guards an assessment was made to indicate the level of threats to every<br />
mammal species in Indus for All programme sites.<br />
1 = no threats, 2 = minor threats, 3 = moderate threats, 4 = highly threatened, 5 =<br />
critically threatened<br />
Table 41 – Assessment of level of threats to mammals at different study sites<br />
Sr. Common Name Keti Keti Pai Keenjhar Chotiari<br />
No.<br />
Shah Bunder Forest Lake Reservoir<br />
1 Asiatic jackal 2 2 2 2 2<br />
2 Caracal or Desert lynx - - - 4<br />
3 Jungle cat 2 2 2 4 3<br />
4 Fishing cat - 3 - 4 3<br />
5 Indian desert cat - 3 - - 2<br />
6 Bengal fox 2 3 2 2 3<br />
7 Desert fox or Red fox 2 3 - 2 3<br />
8 Indian otter 4 - - 5 4<br />
9 Small Indian mongoose 1 1 1 1 1<br />
10 Grey mongoose 1 1 1 1 1<br />
11 Small Indian civet 2 3 2 - -<br />
12 Hog deer 4 - 4 - 3<br />
13 Indian wild boar 1 1 2 2 2<br />
14 Chinkara - - - - 2<br />
15 Feral donkey - - - - 4<br />
16 Indus dolphin 1 - - - -<br />
17 Bottle-nosed dolphin - 1 - - -<br />
18 Hump-backed dolphin - 1 - - -<br />
19 Finless porpoise - 1 - - -<br />
20 Indian pangolin - 3 - 2 -<br />
Total aggregated ranking over<br />
number of recorded species<br />
Figure 20 – Aggregated threat ranking adjusted against number of species<br />
recorded from each site<br />
3<br />
2.5<br />
2<br />
1.5<br />
1<br />
0.5<br />
0<br />
2.1<br />
2 2<br />
Keti Shah Keti Bunder Pai Forest Keenjhar Lake Chotiari<br />
Reservoir<br />
Site<br />
<strong>WWF</strong> <strong>Pakistan</strong> – Indus for All Programme Page 100 of 165<br />
2.5<br />
2.6