Volume 13 Issue 3 February - April 2018
Research Paper
Shruti Kanga *, A. C. Pandey **,
Ayesha Shaheen ***, Suraj Kumar Singh ****
* Assistant Professor and
Coordinator, Centre for Climate Change & Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar
University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
** Professor, Centre for Land
Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), India.
*** PG Scholar, Centre for Land
Resource Management, School of Natural Resource Management, Central University
of Jharkhand, India.
**** Assistant Professor and
Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University,
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Kanga, S., Pandey, A. C., Shaheen,
A., & Singh, S. K. (2018). Geospatial Modelling to Assess Human Elephant
Conflict and Corridor Mapping in Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand
(India). i-manager’s Journal on Future Engineering and Technology,13(3),
24-34. https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.13.3.14227
Abstract
Asian Elephant
(Elephas maximus) is the basically jeopardized biggest earthbound creature. In
the course of recent decades, the quantity of Asian Elephants has dwindled
because of human infringement and spontaneous settlements and development along
the development courses and halls of this lofty creature. Along these lines,
legitimate preservation activities require a point by point spatial database on
the courses and passages of Asian Elephant. Humannatural life clashes happen
inside the setting of dynamic socio-environmental frameworks. Understanding
these contentions at generally more extensive spatial and transient scales
gives a knowledge into the contention situations crosswise over bigger
territory and changes in their spread and power over a wide time frame. This
information would be able to give vigorous contributions to arrangement making
for the locale on the issue. Then again, understanding these contentions at
generally littler spatio-fleeting scale may be helpful in moderation of
contentions for neighbourhood administration organizations, for example, Forest
Department. This locale is much of the time left by elephants from the
neighbouring environments of Orissa and Jharkhand looking for better natural
surroundings and regularly entering human residences and farming fields
bringing about clashes with people. Satellite images and ground data were
utilized for Land use/land cover mapping and identification of contention
zones. In the present study, data was utilized to dole out weights to the three
elements, viz., types of vegetation cover, nearness to water body, and vicinity
to human home. In light of the investigation, a passageway for elephant
development and movement has been recognized which could be overseen by the
state government with a specific end goal to limit human-elephant clashes in
the locale.
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