National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS)

PERFORMA FOR THE QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT (Reporting Period from July 2019 to September 2019.)

1. Project Information

Project ID NMHS/2017-18/MG42/26 Project Title Assessment and Conservation Practices of Pollinators through Community Participation in the Indian Trans Himalayan Region: Climate Change Perspective Project Proponent Dr. V.P. Uniyal Scientist-G Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Chandrabani, Dehradun - 248 001, Uttarakhand

2. Objectives • Assessment – Impact of land use changes on the pollinators and the risks associated with the loss of pollination services; • Adaptive management – Identifying the best management practices and technologies to overcome declines in pollinators; • Capacity Building – Build and strengthen alliances and expertise to increase the benefits from pollination; • Mainstreaming – Supporting national plans for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators, and increasing the awareness of governments, industry and the public.

3. General Conditions • The project must be implemented in consultation with the State government. • A report based on baseline data should be submitted by the project proponent in first quarter of the project. • Complete pollination biology needs to be correlated in project findings w.r.t. specific pollinators vs. specific crops, including societal relevance linking with beneficiaries/ stakeholders. • The Periodic Progress Report of the NMHS Project needs to be submitted and updated on the Online Portal of the NMHS (http://nmhsportal.org) by the PI/ Project Proponent on Quarterly basis consistently. Monitoring indicators for the project should be able to quantify the difference made on ground. • A Certificate should be provided that this work is not the repeat of earlier work (as a mandatory exercise). • The roles and responsibilities of each implementing partners should be delineated properly with their budget. The budget allocations to partners should be done in accordance with the MoEF&CC guidelines (Max. 30% for salary, 30% for equipment and 5% contingency). The same should be communicated to NMHS-PMU, before start of the project.

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• The PI must also submit the baseline data, past work done and all the supporting data generated under the NMHS Project along with the quarterly progress report to NMHS-PMU. • On completion of the study, a Seminar/ Conference/ Workshop should essentially be organized by the PI/ Proponent to discuss and disseminate the findings among the experts and concerned beneficiaries/stakeholders.

4. Progress (fill only 3rd and 4th Column)

Quantifiable Monitoring Progress made against Support Deliverables indicators deliverables in terms of ive monitoring indicators docume nts (PDF, Word, Excel, JPG, TIFT) 1 2 3 4  Scientific database  New Database/ Study was conducted in Table. No. and maps Datasets (Nos) Leh Ladakh newly formed 1, Fig. correlating impact of Union Territory of India 1,2,3,4 shifting land use with an area of 45,110 and agro- km2 which consists of 4 pastoralism on the ranges Karakoram Range pollinator diversity which include Nubra for landscape in 3 valley, Ladakh Range states; includes Leh region, Zanskar Range with  Improving skills and Zanskar valley and capacity building at Western Himalayan Range individual and with Kargil and Dras community level region. The Leh Ladakh throughout the consists of three tehsils landscape (all 6 Khalsi, Leh and Nubra districts) in covering 31 villages. managing the A total of 52 species of habitat usage; pollinators were recorded  Compendium of best from Leh-Ladakh region practices to which consists of 34 overcome declines in species of Hymenoptera, 9 pollinators species of Lepidoptera and 9 species of Diptera,  Report/s to identify Among the pollinators the pollinator Bombus lucorum and diversity of the Bombus tunicatus were region and also most abundant than any provide mitigative other pollinators measures to

2 | P a g e conserve them and their habitats.  No. of maps and Already submitted - templates generated regarding pollinator services and practices with key findings in form of region- specific Best practices/ Models (Nos.)  No of best Yet to be generated - practices documented (Nos.)  No. of awareness Total of 4 awareness Provided raising/ capacity programme have been in building conducted in the Leh- Fig. 5 programmes on Ladakh region. the identified 1. Women alliance dynamics for the group, Leh, Jammu region (No. of & Kashmir Rural Youth, No. of 2. Goverment senor Women, No. of secondary school, Farmers and Total Leh, Jammu & No. of Kashmir Stakeholders 3. Government senior Benefitted), secdory school including Income sumur, Leh, generation/ Jammu & Kashmir benefits statistics 4. Government middle (Rs./ person) school Sakhti, Leh, Jammu & Kashmir No. of Rural Youth=470 No. of Women= 147 No. of Farmers= 104  Policy/ strategic NA _ framework/ draft(s) for assisting the decision-making in the target/ identified area (Nos.)  Other Brochures and pamphlets Publications and on the conservation of Knowledge insect pollinators have been prepared and

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Products (Nos.) distributed in study area

5. Financial Progress (fill only 3rd and 4th Column) Head Total Budget The Balance Supportive Allocated (Rs) Amount (Rs) documents (PDF, Word, Excel, JPG, TIFT) 1 2 3 4 Salary 2983680.00 1520697 Travel 2000000.00 1220036 Consumables 300000.00 181199 Contingency 500000.00 291543 Activities & other project cost 2400000.00 1141963 Institutional Charges Nil Nil Equipments 660000.00 53350 Total 8843680.00 4408788.00

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Table No. 1 sampling locations

Site Locality Latitude Longitude Elevation 1 Ganglas 34°10'42.86" 077°35'02.67" 3604 m 2 Kurzoo 34°10'31.60" 077°35'03.35" 3586m 3 Sankar 34°10'35.66" 077°34'54.79" 3587m 4 Hemis 33°54'57.17" 077°42'46.65" 3569m 5 Thiksey 34°05'13.75" 077°36'59.78" 3236m 6 Spituk 34°07'06.75" 077°32'37.62" 3206m 7 Sakhti 33°58'59.00" 077°49'01.10" 3758m 8 Karu 34°59'24.38" 077°49'10.97" 3548m 9 Shey 34°03'57.41" 077°37'50.18" 3239m 10 Khardung (Nubra 34°23'58.13" 077°39'19.98" 3977m Valley) 11 Sumur (Nubra 34°36'59.00" 077°37'26.17" 3124m Valley) 12 Panamik (Nubra 34°42'34.03" 077°34'22.36" 3165m Valley) 13 Sasoma (Nubra 34°50'11.20" 077°30'18.43" 3224m Valley) 14 Diskit (Nubra 34°32'44.14" 077°33'17.28" 3160m Valley) 15 Hunder (Nubra 34°34'21.64" 077°29'38.99" 3091m Valley) 16 Turtuk (Nubra 34°50'43.71" 076°49'31.11" 2847m Valley) 17 Skuru (Nubra 34°40'31.84" 077°17'02.05" 3078m Valley) 18 Tigger (Nubra 34°38'11.14" 077°37'03.79" 3167m Valley) 19 Murgi (Nubra 34°45'14.33" 077°31'56.80" 3184m Valley) 20 Masho 34°00'12.33" 077°38'04.75" 3469m 21 Alchi 34°13'27.28" 077°10'08.99" 3146m 22 Lamayuru 34°16'58.93" 076°46'08.16" 3484m 23 Nimmu 34°11'46.68" 077°20'01.06" 3158m 24 Likir 34°15'29.50" 077°12'39.32" 3426m

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25 Saspol 34°14'39.54" 077°09'16.60" 3099m 26 Stok (yogma) 34°03'22.88" 077°32'15.80" 3614m 27 Stok (Gogma) 34°05'16.31" 077°35'16.67" 3268m 28 Zinchin 34°05'29.88" 077°25'08.04" 3468m 29 Basgo 34°13'26.30" 077°16'27.60" 3236m 30 Rumchung 34°06'37.33" 077°23'32.72" 3459m 31 Osing 34°04'37.19" 077°25'13.49" 3621m

Fig. 1: Pasture land at Sakhti village Fig. 2: Agriculture land at Diskit village

Fig. 3: Pasture land at Nubra valley Fig. 4: Wet land at Spituk Village

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Eristalis horticola Eristalis similis Eristalis tenax

Eristalis sp.1 Syrphus ribesii Nowickia sp.1

Eumerus sp.1 Sphaerophoria sp.1 Sphaerophoria sp.2

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Grass blue Cabbage white Painted lady

Brown argus Common wood nymph Large Tortoise shell

Silver - studded Blue Sorrel sapphire White Bordered copper

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Fig. 5 Field activities and Capacity building programmes for local community and school children

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