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Conservation Prioritization in a Tiger Landscape: Is Umbrella Species Enough?

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  • Vaishali Vasudeva

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India
    Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

  • Sujata Upgupta

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Ajay Singh

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Nazrukh Sherwani

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Supratim Dutta

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Rajasekar Rajaraman

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Sankarshan Chaudhuri

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Satyam Verma

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India
    School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA)

  • Jeyaraj Antony Johnson

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India)

  • Ramesh Krishnamurthy

    (Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 24800, India
    Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

Abstract

Conservation approaches in tiger landscapes have focused on single species and their habitat. Further, the limited extent of the existing protected area network in India lacks representativeness, habitat connectivity, and integration in the larger landscape. Our objective was to identify sites important for connected tiger habitat and biodiversity potential in the Greater Panna Landscape, central India. Further, we aimed to set targets at the landscape level for conservation and prioritize these sites within each district in the landscape as specific management/conservation zones. We used earth observation data to derive an index of biodiversity potential. Marxan was used to identify sites that met tiger and biodiversity conservation targets with minimum costs. We found that to protect 50% of the tiger habitat with connectivity, 20% of the landscape area must be conserved. To conserve 100% of high biodiversity potential, 50% moderate biodiversity potential, and 25% low biodiversity potential, 55% of the landscape area must be conserved. To represent both tiger habitat and biodiversity, 62% of the total landscape area requires conservation or restoration intervention. The prioritized zones can prove significant for hierarchical decision making, involving multiple stakeholders in the landscape, including other tiger range areas.

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  • Vaishali Vasudeva & Sujata Upgupta & Ajay Singh & Nazrukh Sherwani & Supratim Dutta & Rajasekar Rajaraman & Sankarshan Chaudhuri & Satyam Verma & Jeyaraj Antony Johnson & Ramesh Krishnamurthy, 2022. "Conservation Prioritization in a Tiger Landscape: Is Umbrella Species Enough?," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-21, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:3:p:371-:d:763206
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