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A Preliminary Survey of the Flora and Fauna of Chinkara Breeding Centre, Kairu: A Protected Area in District Bhiwani, Haryana, India
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Parveen Kumar Vats, Ranjeet Singh, Jarnail Singh Sehrawat, Jainder Singh Chhilar
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Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2020 8 (4). doi: 10.12691/aees-8-4-3
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Keywords: Avifauna, Chinkara, diversity, point count method, Haryana
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Context: Chinkara Breeding Centre, Kairu is a protected area under the Schedule of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 under the wildlife wing of the Haryana state forest department located in the district of Bhiwani. It was visited during the month of August 2019 by a team of Zoologists, Geographers, and Botanists to study the eco-geography, flora and fauna of the breeding centre. The present study presents the results of first such short term survey of this important wildlife area lying in the centre of the state of Haryana. A total of 18 plant species and 79 animal species were documented during this survey. The total number of Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) were 106 ( 53 bucks, 51 does and 2 fawns) in this breeding centre. The paper further discusses the importance of such studies for the betterment of biodiversity conservation efforts in case of an ecologically fragile state of Haryana where majority of the wildlife is under constant threat from urbanization and industrialization.
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