Distressed Lives and Livelihood in Biosphere Reserves during Anthropocene; Similipal Forest Blaze -2021

Abstract

Inland Biosphere reserves are mainly focusing on conservation of forests for a sustainable biodiversity that has. alerted the ecologists, and forest managers. The reserving forests were under jurisdiction .of the state forest department. The aboriginal tribes were the forest savers,  so the damages by the wild fire were less in past. Present investigation includes the wild forest blazes in India during 2021 with special attention to the Similipal forest fire 2021 in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha. The socio-biological impacts of the forest fire on the aboriginal communities are searched. The soft-wares used in the present study were ArcGIS, QGIS, GPS Visualizer, USGS Earth Explorer, Google Earth Pro-Paint, Bhuvan, Accu-Weather, and ERDAS IMAGINE 11 for analyzing, image processing, and presentation.  The assessment of the anthropogenic burnt area has been about 1000 Km2. The involvement of the ethnic communities is found to be the protectors of the fire in past are now oustees. The wild blaze management in forests can be done by public private partnership mode. The mass consciousness can be adopted involving the particularly vulnerable tribal group like, the Vana Suraksha Samiti, under the Forest Rights Act of the state government.