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