Pune dist biodiversity scenario in four years

date - 15 Sep 2023
This project was started on Aug 9. 2019 (four years have passed since).
Number of members - 32

• Significance of this region:
  Pune is a district in the western Maharashtra state of India.

• Its western part has Sahyadri mountain range or Northern western ghats. It also has many high level plateaus (HLFP). This region is home to Moist deciduous forests, Semi-evergreen forests.
  Talukas - Junnar, Ambegoan, Khed, Maval, Mulshi, Velhe, Haveli, western Purandar

• Its eastern region is a rain-shadow zone, a part of the Deccan plateau. This region is a home to dry deciduous and thorny forests. It has many grasslands.
  Talukas - Shirur, Eastern Purandar, Baramati, Daund

Thus Pune region has tremendous biodiversity in terms of the wildlife because of difference in the altitude, soil structure, rainfall, humidity, wetlands, climate found in both the western and eastern zones.
As Pune city and its suburbs is been chosen for the development of a "smart city", there is a marathon speed of development and thus human encroachment on all so called empty non-agricultural areas around. Activities like road-widening, tunneling of the existing hills, river sand mining, rock crushing, construction work, metro railways, cutting of old trees etc are in full swing. Most of the farmers have sold their land for construction of roads, malls, housing schemes.
The endemic species of flora and fauna and the migratory bird species have become threatened and vulnerable.
We wished to pool all the observations, which can be used for the conservation purposes.

Here is a summary of the observations done in the duration of 4 years.

• Total observations - 65614
  Max observations by Pavan Damoor (4021, 6.13%)
  Research grade - 59.96%
  Needs ID - 35.67%
  Casual - 4.37%

• Total species - 4733
  Insects - 43.85%
  Plants - 36.3%
  Birds - 7.95%
  Arachnids - 4.71%
  Fungi - 2.15%
  Reptiles - 1.49%
  mammals - 1.15%
  Other animals- 1.15%
  Amphibians - 0.49%
  Max contribution - by Paul 936 (19.78%)

• Total Identifiers - 2859
  Max contribution by - Debashis Chowdhury - 4047
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  Most common species - Common Grass Yellow butterfly (602)

Publicado el 16 de septiembre de 2023 a las 08:39 AM por rujutavinod