학술논문
The Role of Informal Protected Areas in Maintaining Biodiversity in the Western Ghats of India.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*PROTECTED areas
*BIODIVERSITY
*NATURE reserves
*WILDLIFE refuges
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Language
ISSN
1708-3087
Abstract
This article examines the distribution of biodiversity in a protected area and in the adjoining cultivated landscape, including sacred groves and coffee plantations, in the Western Ghats of India. The formal network of protected areas in the region consists of three wildlife sanctuaries and one national park, which stretch continuously along the western and the southwestern boundaries of the district, occupying about 30% of the area. The cultivated landscape with its plantations and sacred groves is of direct value to the local people. It was found that the useful and medicinal trees are more abundant in the cultivated landscape than in the formally protected one.