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HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE Areas (Hcvas) of PARRERA FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT PROJECT HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE AREAs (HCVAs) OF UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME PARRERA FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT PROJECT HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE AREAs (HCVAs) OF PARRERA FOREST TABLE OF CONTENTS PART-I .................................................................................................................................... 1 1. SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT .............................................................. 2 1.1 Introduction: ................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Brief Description of Scrub Forest Area in Salt Range ................................................... 2 1.2.1 Sub-Tropical Evergreen Thorn (Scrub) Forests in Punjab ...................................... 2 1.2.2 Chakwal ................................................................................................................... 5 PART-II .................................................................................................................................. 8 1.3. Brief Description Of Parrera Forest ............................................................................. 9 1.3.1 Location of Parrera Forest: ...................................................................................... 9 1.3.2 Climate of Parrera Forest:........................................................................................ 9 1.3.3 Soil of Parrera Forest: .............................................................................................. 9 1.3.4 Flora and Fauna of Parrera Forest: ........................................................................ 10 1.3.5 Legal Position of Parrera Forest: ........................................................................... 11 2. ACTIVITY PLAN UNDER SFM PROJECT ............................................................ 12 3. METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 13 4. HIGH CONSERVATIVE VALUE AREA (HCVA) ................................................. 15 4.1 Importance of Salt Range for High Conservation Value Area(HCVA) ....................... 16 4.2 Parrera Importance w.r.t High Conservation Value Area(HCVA) ............................. 17 5. IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUES W.R.T FLORA ..... 18 AND FAUNA ........................................................................................................................ 18 6. ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF HCVA OF FLORA AND FAUNA ..................... 20 6.1 Flora Distribution ......................................................................................................... 20 6.1.1 Flora Spread and HCVA........................................................................................ 21 6.2 Fauna Distribution ........................................................................................................ 22 6.2.1 Point density of Fauna ........................................................................................... 23 6.2.2 Corridor of Fauna .................................................................................................. 25 6.3 Key Indicator Species for High Conservation Value Area .......................................... 26 6.3.1 Urial ....................................................................................................................... 26 i 6.3.2 Partridge................................................................................................................. 29 6.3.3 Chinkara Deer ........................................................................................................ 31 7. RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................. 34 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 47 ii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Scrub Forests Administrative Divisions ................................................................ 3 Figure 1.2: SFM Project Sites .................................................................................................. 6 Figure 1.3Pictorial View of Flora and Fauna in Chakwal ....................................................... 7 Figure 1.4: Pictorial View of Flora in Parrera Forest Area .................................................... 10 Figure 1.5: Parrera Forest in Chakwal Division .................................................................... 11 Figure 3.1: Flowchart of Methodology .................................................................................. 14 Figure 5.1: Pictorial View of Flora in Parrera Forest ............................................................ 18 Figure 5.2 Pictorial View of Fauna in Parrera Forest ............................................................ 19 figure 6.1: Flora Species Distribution in Parrera Forest ....................................................... 20 Figure 6.2 Flora High Conservation Value Area of Parrera Forest ....................................... 21 Figure 6.3: Fauna Species Distribution in Parrera Forest ...................................................... 22 Figure 6.4: Point Density of Fauna in Parrera Forest ............................................................ 24 Figure 6.5 Corridor of Fauna in Parrera Forest ..................................................................... 25 Figure 6.6:Distribution of Urial in Parrera Forest ................................................................. 26 Figure 6.7: Point Density of Urial in Parrera Forest .............................................................. 27 Figure 6.8: Corridor of Urial in Parrera Forest ...................................................................... 28 Figure 6.9: Distribution of Partridge in Parrera Forest .......................................................... 29 Figure 6.10: Point Density of Partridge in Parrera Forest ..................................................... 30 Figure 6.11: Distribution of Chinkara Deer in Parrera Forest ............................................... 31 Figure 6.12: Point Density of Chinkara Deer in Parrera Forest ............................................. 32 Figure 6.13: Corridor of Chinkara Deer in Parrera Forest ..................................................... 33 iii LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1:Scrub Forests in Northern Punjab ............................................................................ 3 Table 1.2: Abstract of Scrub Areas In Northern Punjab .......................................................... 4 Table 1.3: Scrub Forest Area (Ac) In Chakwal ....................................................................... 5 Table 1.4: Sustainable Forest Management Sites of Forests in Chakwal ................................ 7 Table 1.5: Abstract of Parrera Forest Area (Ac) ...................................................................... 9 Table 2.1: SFM Project Activity Plan .................................................................................... 12 Table 4.1: HCVA Categories ................................................................................................. 15 Table 4.2: Flora Species in Parrera Forest ............................................................................. 17 Table 4.3: Fauna Species in Parrera Forest ............................................................................ 17 Table 5.1: Tree Species in Parrera Forest .............................................................................. 18 Table 5.2: Shurbs Species in Parrera Forest .......................................................................... 18 Table 5.3:Mammals Species in Parrera Forest ...................................................................... 19 Table 5.4: Reptiles and Amphibian Species in Parrera Forest ............................................... 19 Table 5.5 : Birds Species in Parrera Forest ............................................................................ 19 iv PART-I 1 1. SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 1.1 Introduction: Sustainable Forest Management Project (SFM) objectives are biodiversity conservation including corridors, water development, Climate Change mitigation and ecotourism includes trophy hunting of Urial. The activities proposed for the project include protection of stocked and under-stocked forests for enhancement of carbon stock, avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation; biodiversity conservation; reforestation of under-stocked and blank areas by seed sowing and planting of seedlings in trenches and pits (for Rainwater Harvesting) under dry forestation techniques; involvement of communities through social organization, awareness raising, capacity building, soil conservation through bio-engineering techniques, construction of stock water ponds, paths and fire lines, removal of exotic plants like Prosopis (mesquite), preparation and implementation of ecosystem based landscape management plans focused on SFM, biodiversity preservation and climate change mitigation/carbon sequestration, and assessment of carbon stocks and trading of carbon credits. 1.2 Brief Description of Scrub Forest Area in Salt Range 1.2.1 Sub-Tropical Evergreen Thorn (Scrub) Forests in Punjab The salt range is the most important hill range in the country, owing to the large deposits of rock-salt at its lowest, bottom rock containing large beds of pure common salt, all throughout its extent. 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