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    Assessing the Impact of Traditional Practice of Frog Consumption Amphibian Population from Mizoram India Culture -Nat
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2021) Malsawmdawngliana; Das, Abhijit; Kawlni, Lallianpuii; Lalronunga, Samuel
    Cultural practices have shaped the natural resources around the area in all parts of the world. The traditional practices involving wildlife and their meat as food resources is widely practised by many tribes of the world. Such practice also involves amphibian exploitation as food, one of the critical reasons for the decline in the global amphibian population. Such practice is widespread in the Northeast part of India, including Mizoram. However, the population-level impact of such traditional practice is poorly known. The study was carried out in the buffer and core zone of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) to assess the abundance and species richness. We surveyed four villages around DTR to see how the pattern of frog consumption by the local communities. The study tried to understand how the species diversity and abundance is affected by the off-take of frogs for food in the study area. Time constrained nocturnal Visual Encounter Survey method was used to see the species composition and abundances in the study area. Random sampling using questionnaires and interactions were used to see the frogs’ consumption pattern, medicinal use and preferred species for food of the local communities in the study area.
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    Dogs Finally have their Day? Aspects Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary Ladakh
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2019) Subhashini, K.; Kawlni, Lallianpuii; Jhala, Y.V.
    In a country with increasing numbers of free-ranging dogs that often times foray into wildlife habitats, even their presence has been established as a threat for biodiversity conservation in any landscape. Stated that they pose a problem, the means and extent of the problem needs an understanding of their ecology. This study aims to understand the effect of anthropogenic subsidies on the population, ranging, and subsidy resource usage patterns of free-ranging dogs. Placing subsidies in the centre of the ecology of these dogs, the study also attempts to understand inter-species interactions and potential for dogs to act as disease reservoirs in the unique trans-Himalayan landscape.