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Establishing Baseline Socio-Ecological Data for Habitat Planning

Establishing Baseline Socio-Ecological Data for Habitat Planning Designing Corridors and Managed Elephant use Areas for Community-based Elephant and Biodiversity Conservation Corridors? Current Concept -DWC Proposal- Controversy ? A FOWL DEED No Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)!

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Establishing Baseline Socio-Ecological Data for Habitat Planning

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  1. Establishing Baseline Socio-Ecological Data for Habitat Planning Designing Corridors and Managed Elephant use Areas for Community-based Elephant and Biodiversity Conservation

  2. Corridors?

  3. Current Concept -DWC Proposal-

  4. Controversy ? A FOWL DEED No Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)! Section 9 of the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 49, amended in 1993) provides that any development project carried out within the 1 mile boundary of a National park, essentially, needs the written approval of the DG of the DWC and should also conduct an EIA, in compliance with the stipulations of the National Environment Act.The gazette notification bearing No. 772/22 of 24/06/93, of the National Environment Act No. 47 of 1980, amended by Acts No. 56 of 1988 and No. 53 of 2000, specifies that any development project sited at a river basin, requires an EIA. This project has only an Initial Environmental Examination Report (IEER). It has not conducted an EIA. Yet, the CEA has already sanctioned the project and it is now in full swing.

  5. What do we need to find out? • Are elephants actually using these “routes” • Apart from the Protected Areas –where are they? Is it all year or seasonal? For how many years? • What is the status of the elephants? • Are they herds or individual animals? • What is the current land-use in the area? • What do people think about having elephants in “their backyard”? • How much time do we have?

  6. So how do we do all this? • Plan • Equipment? • Background Data collection? • Field Work? • Enter Data and check accuracy? • Field Work • Analyze and draft report/maps • Discuss with stakeholders • Field Work • Final Report

  7. So how do we do all this? • Plan –what do you want to do? What is the purpose?

  8. So how do we do all this? • . • Equipment- what do you need? How do you use it? • .

  9. So how do we do all this? • . • . • Background Data collection? What has already been done? How does it help me? • . • .

  10. So how do we do all this? • . • . • . • Field Work? Is what I’m collecting what I really need • .

  11. So how do we do all this? • Enter Data and check accuracy -is what I’ve a correct reflection of what’s in the field? • What Analysis do I need to do? • What do I need to show on the map? • What data do I have for the background? • From where can I collect it? Is there time? • What is the print size? • Is my layout clear? • What is the audience?

  12. Grids and Spatial Patterns of collected data Fig. 2. The occurrence of HEC in 1-km2 grid cells in TransMara District: (a) crop raiding by all-male groups; (b) crop raiding by female-led family groups; (c) human deaths and injuries caused by elephants.

  13. Linear or recognisable pattern?

  14. Random Clumps?

  15. Ulihiti Oya / Lahugala Trackmaker–lahugala, mahaweli-c (www.gpstm.com) Google Earth (earth.google.com) ArcMap (Wasgamuwa/MA-C), (Lahugala), (Seruvila) Current Data sets (explore what we have) Basic Analysis (clipping, editing, geo-referencing, projecting and collecting base data)

  16. What's next • Clearly state objectives of this project • Decide on study area • Design methodology for collecting and analyzing data • Decide on dates of field activities • Break into groups to handle the main activities both before and after the field work • Decide on timeline • Develop a grid based map showing land use layers, elephant use, HEC, and other important factors.

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