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| Sathiyaselvam, P.; Satyanarayana, J.E. | |
| Status of fishing cat and Indian smooth-coated otter in Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary | |
| 2016 Full Book | |
Wildlife monitoring is an integral part of a wildlife management and conservation programme that informs managers - the success of the management or otherwise of their programmes. Managers need to have reliable information about the status of wildlife populations and their response to interventions in order to make informed decisions. Without a clear understanding of the biology of wildlife species that inhabits in a particular area, it will not be possible to plan or predict the effects of management strategies. Monitoring is therefore a critical component of any conservation program, necessarily linked to management objectives. Most wildlife monitoring programs are focusing on monitoring the abundance and distribution of animals, population size, population trends, relative abundance, species, shifts in distribution, habitat use, response to management, habitat availability and condition over time and effects of management prescriptions. Wildlife Managers also need more information on the habitat requirements of species of conservation concern. Much of this is behavioural in terms of diet choice, home range, social system and breeding behavior for better management of the species which required more conservation concerns. |
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