NDLI: Primate population decline in response to habitat loss: Borajan Reserve Forest of Assam, India

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Author	Srivastava, Arun Das, Jayanta Biswas, Jihosuo Buzarbarua, Pranab Sarkar, Prabal Bernstein, Irwin S. Moht, Surendra Mal
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Systematic studies of the Borajan Reserve Forest in Assam, India, were conducted in 1995, 1997, and 1998. Initially this small (5 km2) forest was inhabited by substantial numbers of five species of diurnal primates and the forest was typical of Reserve Forests in northwest upper Assam. About two thirds of the forest had canopy cover of 20 – 50% or more. Civil unrest, political problems and a lack of resources for Forest Department personnel, however, resulted in rapid degradation of the area. After three years less than one third of the forest had more than 20% canopy cover; all primate populations had declined dramatically and the small percentage of juveniles in each species indicated that all were in imminent danger of local extinction. There was no evidence of hunting or trapping nor any large scale logging. Forest degradation was due primarily to small scale harvesting of forest products, selective cutting, and collection of firewood. Although only hand tools were employed, the forest inexorably declined in response to these steady pressures. Borajan may be an object lesson as to what can happen but it need not be the harbinger of Assam’s future.
Starting Page	401
Ending Page	406
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00328332
Journal	Primates
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16107365
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Publisher Place	Tokyo
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Conservation Assam India Primates Forest degradation Behavioural Sciences Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Zoology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Animal Science and Zoology

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