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Community Protection of the Manas Biosphere Reserve in Assam, India, and the Endangered Golden Langur Trachypithecus Geei R Obert H Community protection of the Manas Biosphere Reserve in Assam, India, and the Endangered golden langur Trachypithecus geei R obert H. Horwich,Rajen I slari,Arnab B ose,Bablu D ey M ahesh M oshahary,Nirmal Kanti D ey,Raju D as and J onathan L yon Abstract The Golden Langur Conservation Project in and community interest within the region, with communi- Assam, India, was initiated to involve local NGOs and ties taking responsibility for protection of regional forests. communities in protecting the Endangered golden langur Keywords Assam, community-based conservation, golden Trachypithecus geei and its habitat on a regional basis langur, India, Manas Biosphere Reserve, Trachypithecus within a complex political situation. Since langurs are leaf geei eaters they are dependent on forests. The Project area, once dominated by militant action and ethnic violence, is in a densely populated area and formerly suffered much illegal deforestation and accompanying reduction in the Introduction golden langur population. The Project began with two NGOs and evolved into the formation of a forum of five he Golden Langur Conservation Project was initiated NGOs focusing on a large proportion of the golden langur Tin Assam, India, to create regional change for conser- range in Assam, and eventually included . 11 newly vation, focusing on protection of the golden langur Tra- formed community-based organizations. Each NGO fo- chypithecus geei and its habitat, through community cused on nearby Reserve Forests and their resident langur involvement. Regional change through community partic- populations and adjacent human communities. The com- ipation, achieved in an earlier project in Belize, Central munity-conservation tools used included (1) initial local America, which focused on the black howler monkey community awareness campaigns, (2) formation of local Alouatta pigra (Young & Horwich, 2007), was used as Forest Committees and Self Help Groups, (3) a major a model for the Project in Assam. Although the Golden regional awareness campaign about the golden langur and Langur Conservation Project is located in India the ques- its forested habitat in the Manas Biosphere Reserve, and tion is universal: how do you motivate communities on (4) creation of a number of village-based Forest Protection a regional scale to protect their natural environment? Forces. The Golden Langur Conservation Project has The Project’s focal species, the golden langur, is endemic resulted in an increase in the total Indian population of to western Assam and southern Bhutan, and is categorized golden langurs, control of illegal logging and poaching in as Endangered on the IUCN Red List (2008). It inhabits two isolated Reserve Forests by formation of a protection lowland evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous force of surrounding village groups, and curtailing illegal forests within the Brahmaputra River valley of India and logging and increasing forest protection in the Reserve the foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan (Srivastava Forests of the Manas Biosphere Reserve by the formation et al., 2001; Bezbaruah, 2004; Biswas, 2005). In healthy of 10 tribal, government-sanctioned volunteer Forest Pro- forests the species is arboreal (Wangchuk, 1995), depending tection Forces. The Project created an atmosphere of on the forest for its diet of leaves, seeds, fruits and flowers community awareness of the golden langur and its forests (Biswas, 2002; Srivastava, 2004). In severely disturbed forest fragments troops exploit village fruit crops and ground crops. With a global population of 4,500–5,000 (Biswas, ROBERT H. HORWICH (Corresponding author) Community Conservation, 2005), and with c. 1,500 in Assam (Srivastava et al., 2001) 50542 One Quiet Lane, Gays Mills, WI, USA. E-mail [email protected] and the remainder in Bhutan (Wangchuk, 1995), the golden RAJEN ISLARI Green Forest Conservation, Kokrajhar District, BTC (Assam), India langur is probably India’s most threatened primate (Mukherjee & Southwick, 1997). Long-term survival de- ARNAB BOSE,NIRMAL KANTI DEY and RAJU DAS Natures Foster, Bongai- gaon, Assam, India pends on genetic exchange but much of the golden langur 2005 BABLU DEY Green Heart Nature Club, Kokrajhar, BTC (Assam), India population is fragmented (Biswas, ). The Golden Langur Conservation Project began as MAHESH MOSHAHARY New Horizon, Bongaigaon, BTC (Assam), India a conservation initiative to extend the work of the Indo- JONATHAN LYON Department of Biology, Merrimack College, North 1994 2001 Andover, Massachusetts, USA US Primate Project of – , which studied the nine Received 10 December 2007. Revision requested 14 March 2008. species of primates in the seven north-eastern states Accepted 20 May 2008. of India. To test methods of community conservation ª 2010 Fauna & Flora International, Oryx, 44(2), 252–260 doi:10.1017/S0030605310000037 Protection of the golden langur 253 developed in Belize (Young & Horwich, 2007) and the USA This situation led to major deforestation, with local people (Horwich, 2005), we selected Assam because of the chal- cutting illegally for smugglers and gaining a pittance from lenging situation (a high human population, severe de- the cut logs. With no government protection, compounded forestation and complex politics). by corruption and fuelwood sales, 50% of western Assam’s Recent political upheaval in western Assam began with forests were destroyed. the unrest of Bodo tribal groups, in the early 1980s, who The Golden Langur Conservation Project was initiated wished to establish an autonomous Bodoland state. In 1998 in 1998 in the midst of this situation, working initially with two militant groups, the Bodo Liberation Tigers and the a community-based organization and a non-governmental National Democratic Front of Boroland maintained organization (NGO), Green Forest Conservation and Na- ephemeral bases in the Assam forests, threatening govern- ture’s Foster, respectively. Nature’s Foster had discovered ment staff and politicians and preventing the Assam Forest golden langurs in Kakoijana Reserve Forest in 1996 (Bose, Department from protecting the Reserve Forests and pro- 1997) and had begun focusing on their protection. As the tected areas of western Assam. The situation was com- project achieved higher visibility it attracted other regional pounded by ethnic violence in 1996–1998 between the NGOs, independent researchers and conservationists, and indigenous Bodo people and the Santhals, tribal people new community-based organizations, to form the Manas who were translocated from peninsular India to Assam by Biosphere Conservation Forum, focused on the golden the British colonial government for labour in the tea plan- langur and the Manas Biosphere Reserve forests (Fig. 1). tations in c. 1850. This conflict resulted in 250,000 refu- Here we describe the methods and tools used to mo- gees in camps, mainly along the highway south of the tivate both professional conservationists and inhabitants Kachugaon, Ripu and Chirrang Reserve Forests (Fig. 1). across the entire Indian range of the golden langur in FIG. 1 The range of the golden langur Trachypithecus geei in western Assam. The Manas Biosphere Reserve (outlined in black) extends along the Bhutan Border within the Bodoland Territorial Administrative District (TAD). Ten community-based organizations (CBOs), represented by letters, have Forest Protection Forces (represented by circles with the force number inside) that patrol the areas where the arrows point: A, Green Forest Conservation; B, Biodiversity Conservation Society; C, New Horizon; D, Raigajli Ecotourism and Social Welfare Society; E, Panbari Manas National Park Protection and Ecotourism Society; F, Swarnkwr Mithinga Onsai Afut (Basbari range); G, Manas Maozigendri Ecotourism Society; J, Manas Bhuyapara Conservation and Ecotourism Society; K, Manas Souchi Khongkar Ecotourism Society; L, Manas Agrang Society. The two NGOs are Nature’s Foster (H) and Green Heart Nature Club (I) based in Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar, respectively. The Reserve Forests (RF) and other areas are represented by numbers in pentagons: 1, Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary; 2, Nayekgaon; 3, Nadangiri RF; 4, rubber plantation; 5 Bheskamari RF; 6, Bangaldoba RF; 7, Singram RF; 8, Sampamon RF; 9, Bhumeshwar RF; 10, Nakkati RF; 11, Bhairab RF; 12, Kakoijana RF; 13, Bamungaon RF; 14, Kharagaon RF; 15, Guma RF; 16, Ripu RF; 17, Chirrang RF; 18, Manas RF; 19, Manas National Park; 20, Kachugaon RF. ECO indicates an area that is being reforested (see text for details). ª 2010 Fauna & Flora International, Oryx, 44(2), 252–260 254 R. H. Horwich et al. western Assam. We report the results of the community a small population of golden langurs in Kakoijana Reserve conservation intervention that led to almost complete Forest in 1996 (Bose, 1997) this NGO began similar meetings community protection of golden langur habitat, including with the communities around Kakoijana (Fig. 1). the Manas Biosphere Reserve, and an increase in the Indian Because of potential danger from militant groups trips population of golden langurs (Ghosh, 2008a,b; Anon., into the forest that were arranged by government officials, 2009; J. Biswas, unpubl. data). when they included RHH, were accompanied by army and police. Later, trips were arranged by NGO workers, who Study area sent word through the community network to inform the militants of our presence and to gather villagers for the The main golden langur range in Assam lies within the meetings. During 1998–2000 Green Forest Conservation Manas Biosphere
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