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Human Impact on Tropical Deciduous Forests: A Case Study of Indian Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Similipal Biosphere Reserve


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1 Aranya Bhawan, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar-751023, Odisha, India
2 Retired Professor in Zoology, 300 Kharavela Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751001, Odisha, India
     

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With the aim of evaluating the impact of fuelwood collection for household and commercial use like sale in the urban centres and use in brick kilns on tropical deciduous forests, Similipal Biosphere Reserve in India was taken as a case study. There was a decrease of 418.07 ha dense forest (canopy cover more than 40 per cent) in compartments P3, P4 and P5 of the Reserve from 1997 to 2006 due to unsustainable removal of fuelwood by the local people. Everyday on an average 214 (s.d.19) bicycle-loads of fuelwood were transported to Baripada city from the above three compartments which was estimated to be 9538.39 m3 wood annually against annual increment of 4797.63 m3 only. The paper stresses on introduction of modern cooking fuels and stoves in and around the forest fringe villages, massive energy tree plantation, and alternative avocation to the people dependant on fuelwood sale.

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Fuelwood, Modern Cooking Fuels and Stoves, Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Tropical Deciduous Forest, Energy Tree Plantation
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D. Swain
Aranya Bhawan, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar-751023, Odisha
India

B. K. Behura
Retired Professor in Zoology, 300 Kharavela Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751001, Odisha
India


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Authors

D. Swain
Aranya Bhawan, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar-751023, Odisha, India
B. K. Behura
Retired Professor in Zoology, 300 Kharavela Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751001, Odisha, India

Abstract


With the aim of evaluating the impact of fuelwood collection for household and commercial use like sale in the urban centres and use in brick kilns on tropical deciduous forests, Similipal Biosphere Reserve in India was taken as a case study. There was a decrease of 418.07 ha dense forest (canopy cover more than 40 per cent) in compartments P3, P4 and P5 of the Reserve from 1997 to 2006 due to unsustainable removal of fuelwood by the local people. Everyday on an average 214 (s.d.19) bicycle-loads of fuelwood were transported to Baripada city from the above three compartments which was estimated to be 9538.39 m3 wood annually against annual increment of 4797.63 m3 only. The paper stresses on introduction of modern cooking fuels and stoves in and around the forest fringe villages, massive energy tree plantation, and alternative avocation to the people dependant on fuelwood sale.

Keywords


Fuelwood, Modern Cooking Fuels and Stoves, Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Tropical Deciduous Forest, Energy Tree Plantation

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