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Wildlife and Nature Based Tourism As a Potential Livelihood Option For NMHS Funded Project Progress Report on Wildlife and Nature Based Tourism as a Potential Livelihood Option for Local People inhabiting around the Protected Areas in Eastern Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh: A Sustainable approach for biodiversity conservation (Grant Type: Medium Grant, Period: from 1st July 2018 to31st March 2019) By Dr. Awadhesh Kumar Associate Professor& PI, Department of Forestry North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology Deemed to be University, Nirjuli-791109, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India NMHS Progress Report Page | 1 st st (Period from 1 July 2018 to 31 March 2019) 1. Project Information: Project ID: GBPNI/NMHS-2017-18/SG-05 Sanction Date: 26/02/2018 Project Exploring Wildlife and Nature Based Tourism as a Potential Livelihood Title: Option for Local People inhabiting in and around the Protected Areas in Eastern Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh: A Sustainable approach for biodiversity conservation BTG: Livelihood Options and Employment Generation PI and Dr. Awadhesh Kumar, Affiliation Associate Professor (Institution): North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST), Deemed to be University), Nirjuli-791109, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh 1. Dr. Murali Krishna, Amity Institute of Forestry & Wildlife, Amity University, Noida, Delhi NCR – 201313 2. Dr. Ashalata Devi, Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur University, Name & Tezpur, Assam Address 3. Mr. TanaTapi, DFO, Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary, Seijosa, East Kameng district, of the Co-PI, Arunachal Pradesh if any: 4. Mrs. SaritaRayem, Green Lyfe Foundation –NGO, Seijosa, East Kameng Structured district, Arunachal Pradesh 5. Mr. TakumNabum, The GhoraAbhe Society- NGO, Seijosa, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh Being a part of the Eastern Himalayas, the state of Arunachal Pradesh is having Abstract - highest species richness and biological diversity among Northeast states in terms of flora fauna and tribal traditions and culture. In India, more than 700 protected areas (PAs) is declared by Govt. of India. However, among these PAs only a few PAs are famous or recognized by people for wildlife and nature based tourism and contributing a lot in livelihood of the not only surrounding local inhabitants but also rural people of the area. Thus, PAs in India provides livelihood support to the local people, directly or indirectly. In northeast states, only a few PAs like Kaziranga NP and Manas NP are highly famous for wildlife based tourism. But in Arunachal Pradesh which has 13 protected areas, except Namdapha NP, no one is explored for the tourism development.Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the well management protected area and established in the Assam-Arunachal border, approximately 40km away from the Tezpur town, Assam. It has a great potential for wildlife and nature based tourism development which can also support indirectly wildlife and nature based livelihood options for the local inhabitant living in the fringe of the sanctuary area due to its high richness in terms of flora and fauna. Sanctuary is also declared as Tiger Reserve in April 2002. We conducted survey between July 2018 to March 2019 in Pakke with a major goal that how wildlife and natural view of Pakke wildlife Sanctuary can provide a livelihood options for the local inhabitants for sustaining their life and sustainable biodiversity conservation. Till now, nine nature trails are identified along with distance of nature trail, time taking in trekking & jeep safari and wildlife species Page | 2 occur each trail. Overall 216 species of birds, 16 mammals, and one reptile are recorded to encounter frequently. We have surveyed for hospitality in surrounding Pakke WLS but no hotel and resort facilities are available within 30 km of Pakke and found three home stays and two jungle camps in surrounding villages which offer an accommodation and fooding in very economical price. There is lack of jeep safari; one jeep is available for safari. Based on our survey, the sanctuary is having high potential for the hornbill’s lovers and as more than hundred individual of hornbills can be sighted in one flock at morning and evening in Pakke. High & frequent sighting opportunity of wild elephants and tigers in the sanctuary are the another flagship species who attract the tourist. A part from these flagship species, a beautiful view of the sanctuary and stay inside their provide a comfortable and peaceful life for the nature lovers. Detailing the We have done 117 sample point counts in one year of survey and on those current year points we have recorded 216 avifauna species and 16 mammalian species. progress [Word While survey we have accompanied with five interested unemployed local Limit 250 youths for getting training as a local tourist assistant/guide and we have words]: trained them about identification of wild animals and plants. That may directly and indirectly profitable for ecotourism development for the existing community and getting livelihood. We have collected information on existing govt. accommodation, home stay and Jungle camps in and around Pakke Tiger Reserve and till now we surveyed the villages located near boundary of PTR and found 3 home stays in Darlong village which is around 1 km from headquarter of Pakke WLS and 2 Eco-jungle camp, one in A-2 village (5km) which is held by local NGO Ghora Aabhe and another is in Mubosa village (8km) which is handling by local community. 9 Nos. of nature trail are identified with existing flagship species and other wildlife species diversity, distance of nature trail, time taking in trekking and jeep safari. Project Affiliations Role & Responsibilities Partners Dr. Murali Amity Institute of Forestry & Wildlife, Overall implementation and training of Krishna Amity University, Noida, Delhi NCR - forest personal and local youth about the 201313 wildlife identification and to convert them into tour guide Dr. Ashalata Department of Environmental Environmental education, awareness and Devi Science, Tezpur University, Tezpur, community participation, Biodiversity Assam conservation Mr. Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary, Seijosa, Help in implementing the project in TanaTapi, Pakke Kesang district, Arunachal ground level DFO Pradesh Mrs. Green Lyfe Foundation –NGO, Planning ecotourism activities. SaritaRayem Seijosa, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh Mr. The GhoraAbhe Society- NGO, Organizing livelihood based training TakumNabu Seijosa, East Kameng district, programme. m Arunachal Pradesh Page | 3 2. Project site Details: Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve (here after PTR) located in the East Kameng district, lies in the eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, India (26° 85' 49'' N to 27° 81' 69'' N; 92° 83' 69'' E to 93° 80' 99'' E) and covers an area of 861.95 km2. The area has great scope for wildlife based tourism programme and supporting nature based livelihood for the local inhabitant living in the fringe of the sanctuary area due to the richness of its flora and fauna and well management. Seijosa is the headquarter of Sanctuary, situated at distance of 60 km from Tezpur on National Highway (NH-52). Pakke wildlife Sanctuary is declared in 1977 and due to rich Tiger population it is declared as Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) in April 2002. The Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary is surrounded by river which makes the natural boundary of Reserve and shares its boundary from South East to West direction with Nameri National Park, Assam. Sanctuary is divided into two management zones viz. buffer zone (75 km2) and core zone (786.95 km2). The sanctuary is bordered by Bhareli River (or Kameng River) in the north and west, by Pakke River in the east and by the Nameri National Park and Nauduar Reserve Forest of Assam in south. PWLS is not an isolated patch of forest but encircled by Reserve Forest and other Protected Forests. Sanctuary has two administrative ranges viz, Seijosa Wildlife Range (SWR) and Tipi Wildlife Range (TWR).The topography of the sanctuary is undulating and hilly. The altitudinal variations starting from 200 to 2040 m above mean sea level. Thus, the sanctuary is surrounded by contiguous forests and undulating terrain and hills on most sides with higher hills in the northern part of sanctuary. The general vegetation type of the entire tract is classified as Assam Valley tropical semi-evergreen vegetation (Champion and Seth, 1968). Page | 4 Figure 1. Study area: Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh Overview of the Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary Page | 5 3. Project Activities Chart w.r.t. Timeframe [Gantt or PERT] OVER ALL WORK PROJECT ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN OUTPUTS (From 1st July 2018 to 31st March -2019) 1. To evaluate the status Four field surveys were 216 avifauna and 16 of wildlife species and conducted on estimation the mammalian species has been hotspot area with status of wildlife species with documented reference to flagship reference to flagship and Hornbills and elephants are species targeting for charismatic sp. identified as flagship species. wildlife based tourism. Point count survey is taken for Some specific points were avifauna estimation & selected for threatened and documentation and direct & rare species movement so that indirect sighting method is used tourist can sight those species for mammal species. easily. Monitoring will be continued to More than 200 individuals of record some new observations. Wreathed Hornbill and 32 Oriental pied Hornbill and around 9 Great hornbills were recorded. One large roosting site is identified in darlong village and named that place as “tea with hornbill”. 2. To identify the major Identification of Nature trail & 10 Nos. nature trails were hotspot zones which hotspot tourism zone for identified and in between the have high potential for operating tourism. trails some specific zones are nature based tourism List of species found in each selected for tourist interest. within the selected nature trail was documented 117 sampling point counts are study area. along with distance of nature trail done in between these trails. and time taking in trekking & Birding zones are selected for Jeep safari. some rare and threatened Facility available for the tourist. species sighting An intensive survey is done for 25 Nos.
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