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Best practice guidance for planning roads through sensitive habitats

Best practice guidance for planning roads through sensitive habitats. Dr. Vinod. B. Mathur Professor & Dean Wildlife Institute of India vbm@wii.gov.in. Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA; Saudi Arabia; 24-26 November, 2008.

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Best practice guidance for planning roads through sensitive habitats

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  1. Best practice guidance for planning roads through sensitive habitats Dr. Vinod. B. Mathur Professor & DeanWildlife Institute of Indiavbm@wii.gov.in Ecological and economic evaluation approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in EIA; Saudi Arabia; 24-26 November, 2008

  2. Environmental Impact Assessment of Road Transport Development: The State-of-the-Art in the Selected Countries of the ESCAP Region, ESCAP, Bangkok, 1988. Environmental Impact Assessment: Guidelines for Transport Development, (ST/ESCAP/785), ESCAP, 1990. Environmental Impact Assessment of Roads, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, 1994. Roads and the Environment: A Handbook, Report TWU 13. Transport Division, World Bank, Washington DC, 1994. Existing EIA guidelines specific to road development projects contd…

  3. Environmental Assessment in the Transportation Sector – Guidelines for Managers, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Washington DC, 1996. Roads and the Environment: A Handbook, Transport Division, World Bank Paper No. 376, Washington DC, 1997. Biodiversity and Environmental Impact Assessment: A Good Practice Guide for Road Scheme. Helen Byron, 2000-The RSPB, WWF-UK, English Nature and Wildlife Trusts’, Sandy. Road, Sensitive Habitats and Wildlife: Environmental Guidelines for India and South Asia. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun and Canadian. Rajvanshi, A., Mathur, V. B., Teleki, Geza C. & Mukherjee, S.K. (2000). Existing EIA guidelines specific to road development projects contd…

  4. Environmental Collaborative Ltd, Toronto, 2001, 215 pp. http://www.wii.gov.in/publications/eia/index.htm Identifying the Best Locations along Highways to Provide Safe Crossing Opportunities for Wildlife. Barnum, S. (2003). Report No. CDOT-DTD-UCD-2003-9. Colorado Department of Transportation. http://ttap.colostate.edu/ Library/CDOT/CDOT-DTD-UCD-2003-9.pdf. Second Nature: Improving Transportation without Putting Nature Second. http://www.transact.org/library/reports_pdfs /Biodiversity/second_nature.pdf (last accessed on 2007). White, P. A. & Ernst, M. (2007). Existing EIA guidelines specific to road development projects contd…

  5. Work Zone Best Practices Guidebook. Prepared by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in partnership with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). April 2000. Best practice guidance for biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment: A manual for practitioners and reviewers in South Asia. CBBIA-IAIA Guidance Series. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment (CBBIA) Project, International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), North Dakota, U.S.A. Rajvanshi, A., Mathur, Vinod B., Iftikhar, Usman A. (2007) Existing EIA guidelines specific to road development projects

  6. Development of Best Practice Guide:An Initiative at WII

  7. Current and proposed roadwork in India: 1996-2008 Road project km Golden quadrilateral 5952 NH2 Delhi – Calcutta 1469 NH5&6 Calcutta–Chennai 1745NH4, 7, 45 & 46 Chennai– Mumbai 1302 NH8 Delhi – Mumbai 1436 North – South and East–West corridors 7300 Source: National Highway Authority of India 1999

  8. Protected Area Network and Road Development

  9. Part – I Theory and Practice Roads and Wildlife: The Relationship Protected Areas, Wildlife and Roads: Environmental Issues Environmental Institutions, Legislations and Process Ecosystems, Impacts and Mitigative Measures Methods and Tools Additional Sources of Information Contents

  10. Part – II Case Studies Road and Rail Network Development in Gir National Park and Sanctuary, India Kohalpur-Mahakali Highway Project, Nepal Mumbai-Pune Expressway Project, India Linear Developments and Elephant Movement in Rajaji-Corbett Conservation Area, India Colombo-Katunayake Expressway Project: Integrating Environmental Considerations in Project Planning, Sri Lanka Andhra Pradesh State Highway Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project: The Nandyal-Giddalur-Thokapalli Road, India Contents

  11. Annexures Annexure I– Glossary Annexure II – Sample of Environmental Management Action Plan Contents

  12. Impact of Roads Types of Impacts Significance of Impacts Protected Areas, Wildlife and Roads: Environmental Issues

  13. Habitat fragmentation and modification Restriction of animal movements Injury and mortality of wildlife species Impacts of Roads Soil erosion and hydrological alterations Environmental contamination Human colonization induced disturbances

  14. Habitat fragmentation and modification

  15. Restriction of animal movements

  16. Injury and mortality of wildlife species

  17. Animal mortality on roads in protected areas of India and Nepal (1997-1998) Number of individualskilled per Tadoba Sariska Gir Corbett Pench Royal Bardiayear Tiger Tiger National and Tiger Tiger National Park Reserve Reserve Park Sanctuary Reserve Reserve Nepal Wildlife habitats and the nature of roads on which mortality is reported FR SH SH SH NH NH Chital 2 1 3 Sambar 3 1 Nilgai 2 1 Wild boar Lion 2 Leopard 1 4 Tiger 2 5 2 Langur 17 37 1 Civet 3 1 Porcupine 1 Barking deer 2 Mongoose 4 1 Hyaena 2 1 Jungle cat 1 1 Total road kills 29 8 6 46 6 6 Source Dubey, Johnsingh Singh & Uttar- Areendran Karki & 1997 et al. Kamboj anchal & Pasha Shreshtha pers. 1998 1996 Forest 1999 1998 comm. Dept. pers. comm. pers. comm.

  18. Soil erosion and hydrological alterations

  19. Environmental contamination

  20. Human colonization- induced disturbances

  21. Impact of Roads • Types of Impacts • Significance of Impacts

  22. Direct or Primary Impacts Indirect or Secondary Impacts Cumulative or Synergistic Impacts Impact of Roads Development

  23. Direct or Primary Impacts

  24. Indirect or Secondary Impacts

  25. Cumulative or Synergistic Impacts

  26. Impact of Roads • Types of Impacts • Significance of Impacts

  27. Significance of Impacts • Geographical Area • Species, Communities, Ecosystems affected

  28. Examples of potential impacts of road on wildlife Project characteristics/ Direct impacts Indirect impacts Cumulative/activity synergistic impacts Clearing of Loss or degrada- Reduction in Decline in wildlifevegetation tion of habitat habitat use population and diversity Increase in Increased road Decline in Change to trophic traffic volume kills populations dynamics and species composition Road alignment Increased access Unplanned Decline in habitat through wildlife to pristine wildlife development quality habitat habitat areas Poaching Species decline Land acquisition Displacement of Colonization Deterioration of for road people pressure in previously undisturbed unsettled areas natural areas

  29. Thank you…

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