Study to assess the lockdown impact on the biodiversity with main emphasis on Birds around the World Heritage Site-Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur (Rajasthan, India)

Dr. Arjun Soni; Dr. Satya Prakash Mehra

Study to assess the lockdown impact on the biodiversity with main emphasis on Birds around the World Heritage Site-Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur (Rajasthan, India)

Author(s): Dr. Arjun Soni and Dr. Satya Prakash Mehra

Abstract: COVID-19 was first noticed in Wuhan, China and started spreading throughout the world gradually. Being a LETHAL IMPACT for human beings declared pandemic. With the signal of alert to save the human lives, lockdown process was imposed as one of the preventive measures to maintain the social Distancing. The lockdown implementation checked the anthropogenic activities specially the transportation. Due to restricted or very less movement of humans in avifauna biodiversity, it came to observe a positive and healthy sign regarding their daily working activities and their way of living standards and management respectively which are good signs and indicators in improvement of avifauna biodiversity and their conservation.

In our study we attempted to assess the impact of the lockdown on the biodiversity with main emphasis on birds in human habitations which witnessed the revival of avifaunal diversity. For this purpose two type of assessments were carried out viz: Assessment of habitats around Keoladeo National Park with special reference to avifauna and Assessment of the avifaunal diversity around KNP in the pre- and post- lockdown period. The area undertaken for the study includes the urban, rurban and rural environs around Keoladeo National Park (KNP), Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. The stakeholders from the human habitation with the aerial distance of 2-5 kilometres from the KNP boundaries were considered for the sampling studies.

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Vol. 9, Special Issue 1 (2024)

Study to assess the lockdown impact on the biodiversity with main emphasis on Birds around the World Heritage Site-Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur (Rajasthan, India)

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