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    Cheetah landscape in India
    (NTCA and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2024) Cheetah landscape in India : Atlas of Kuno-Gandhi Sagar Landscape for Metapopulation management of Cheetah in India; Qureshi, Qamar; Bipin, C.M.; Rautela, Nupor; Jain, Dhruv; Habib, Bilal; Sharma, Uttam K.; Bhardwaj, G.S.; Mallick, Amit; Yadav, S.P.; Gopal, Rajesh; Shrivastav, Aseem; Sen, Subharanjan; Krishnamoorthy, L.; Gupta, Rajesh; Upadhyay, Pawan K.; Tiwari, Virendra R.
    Based on data collected during the All India Tiger estimation conducted in 2022 information on human disturbances and the presence of invasive species in the forest divisions and protected areas were collated for the landscape along with the human footprint index and mapped to identify the areas that require management as well as planning for prioritizing actions.
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    Elephant reserves of India: an Atlas (Version - 2/2023)
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2023) WII-PE_MoEFCC
    This document aimed at carrying out Management Evaluation and Effectiveness (MEE) of the Elephant Reserves. Formulation of MEE was a major step towards institutionalizing management of the Elephant Reserves in the country. Thus, the Project Elephant is keen to keep the database pertaining to the Elephant Reserves up to date. During the period 2022 – 2023, two new Elephant Reserves were notified. This includes the (i) Agasthiyarmalai Elephant Reserve in Tamil Nadu, which was notified in the biodiversity rich southern Western Ghats, and (ii) the Terai Elephant Reserve in Uttar Pradesh in the Dudhwa landscape along the Terai flood plains, which is a renowned as a large mammal paradise acting as a stronghold for tigers, swamp deer, one-horned rhinoceros and the transboundary population of elephants ranging between India and Nepal. With these two additions, India currently has 33 Elephant Reserves spread at 80,777 km2 of mosaic habitats.
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    Land-Use and Land-Cover Classification of the Elephant Reserves of India
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2022) WII-PE-MoEFCC
    In this report, the present status of the LULC of the ERs in India classified based on the BHUVAN LULC layer of NRSC for the year 2018 is provided. Only five major LULC classes have been provided for the ERs, which include forests, agriculture, water, fallow and human built-up areas. Further sub-classification of forests into different forest types and tree density, and agriculture Kharifharif and rabi crops was not done. Further, using geospatial layers for the years 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2018 broad comparisons between the years were made for all the five major LULC categories of the ERs to assess any major potential disparity between the years. Additionally, the linear infrastructure comprising major roads (National and State Highways) and the Indian Railway network were mapped based on 2018