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Item Traditional therapeutic uses of animals and animal products among indigenous people of Idukki district, Kerala, India(Department of Wildlife Sciences, College of Forestry ,Vellanikkara, 2021) Shijith S, Nair; Shaji, MItem Traditional therapeutic uses of animals and animal products among indigenous people of Idukki district, Kerala, India(Department of Wildlife Sciences, College of Forestry,Vellanikkara, 2021-12-31) Shijith S Nair; M ShajiHumans have known about ethnobiological uses since ancient times and rely on fauna and flora for medicines, food, clothing, and other necessities of life. For their basic health-care needs, the world population is looking for an alternative medication generated from natural resources, and this natural alternative, which consists of various bioactive chemicals, may be more effective with less toxicity than manufactured pharmaceuticals. The Western Ghats are home to a diverse range of fauna and flora, with plant-based medicines accounting for the majority of natural medicines discovered thus far. Animal medicines, on the other hand, have a restricted number of references. Rural communities, who have acquired millennium old traditional wisdom from their predecessors and handed it down through generations, are crucial in disease management. Poverty and a scarcity of medical facilities are to blame, they rely mainly on traditional knowledge, hence This knowledge is only available in rural regions. Before it is depleted as a result of rising urbanisation, modernization, and industry, traditional plant and animal recipes must be recorded. It is critical to document particular human societies' plant and animal usage that are passed down through the generations in undiscovered areas. Furthermore, with the growing threat of microorganism resistance to existing allopathic medications, novel natural chemical combinations with synergistic or additive effects are desperately needed. As a result, the project was designed with the goals of 1) analysing and documenting indigenous people's ethnozoological knowledge in Kerala's Idukki area. 2) additionally, document the creation and use of medications derived from animals and animal products, and 3) quantitative indices are used to determine the highly desired ones. This might be the first investigation in the specific location to describe traditionally used medicinal fauna and its recipes. The findings of the study might help preserve traditional knowledge and identify new taxa as a potential source of adjunct to conventional medicine. 84 The outcomes of the reseaech followed imply that local populations in Idukki have a good understanding of how to make ethnomedicine out of faunal diversity based on what's available. This research preserves ethnobiological data while also laying the groundwork for pharmacological, phytochemical, and synergistic research. People employ animal products/parts either alone or in combination with other things to treat a variety of human diseases. The findings also reveal that ethnomedicine is an important part of the primary health care system in the research area, but that it is mostly centred on flora rather than fauna. The animal recipes offer new perspectives on drug research that, through synergistic mechanisms, may pave the way for the development of new and effective therapies. Traditional knowledge is rapidly fading; hence scholars are being encouraged to perform further study in this region so that it may be preserved and documented.Item Traditional therapeutic uses of animals and animal products among indigenous people of Idukki district, Kerala, India(Department of wildlife sciences, College of Forestry,Vellanikkara, 2021) Shijith S Nair; Shaji, MHumans have known about ethnobiological uses since ancient times and rely on fauna and flora for medicines, food, clothing, and other necessities of life. For their basic health-care needs, the world population is looking for an alternative medication generated from natural resources, and this natural alternative, which consists of various bioactive chemicals, may be more effective with less toxicity than manufactured pharmaceuticals. The Western Ghats are home to a diverse range of fauna and flora, with plant-based medicines accounting for the majority of natural medicines discovered thus far. Animal medicines, on the other hand, have a restricted number of references. Rural communities, who have acquired millennium old traditional wisdom from their predecessors and handed it down through generations, are crucial in disease management. Poverty and a scarcity of medical facilities are to blame, they rely mainly on traditional knowledge, hence This knowledge is only available in rural regions. Before it is depleted as a result of rising urbanisation, modernization, and industry, traditional plant and animal recipes must be recorded. It is critical to document particular human societies' plant and animal usage that are passed down through the generations in undiscovered areas. Furthermore, with the growing threat of microorganism resistance to existing allopathic medications, novel natural chemical combinations with synergistic or additive effects are desperately needed. As a result, the project was designed with the goals of 1) analysing and documenting indigenous people's ethnozoological knowledge in Kerala's Idukki area. 2) additionally, document the creation and use of medications derived from animals and animal products, and 3) quantitative indices are used to determine the highly desired ones. This might be the first investigation in the specific location to describe traditionally used medicinal fauna and its recipes. The findings of the study might help preserve traditional knowledge and identify new taxa as a potential source of adjunct to conventional medicine. 84 The outcomes of the reseaech followed imply that local populations in Idukki have a good understanding of how to make ethnomedicine out of faunal diversity based on what's available. This research preserves ethnobiological data while also laying the groundwork for pharmacological, phytochemical, and synergistic research. People employ animal products/parts either alone or in combination with other things to treat a variety of human diseases. The findings also reveal that ethnomedicine is an important part of the primary health care system in the research area, but that it is mostly centred on flora rather than fauna. The animal recipes offer new perspectives on drug research that, through synergistic mechanisms, may pave the way for the development of new and effective therapies. Traditional knowledge is rapidly fading; hence scholars are being encouraged to perform further study in this region so that it may be preserved and documented.Item Modelling habitat suitability and climate change impacts on endemic birds of Southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India(Department of wildlife sciences, College of Forestry,Vellanikkara, 2021) Sreehari K Mohan; Nameer, P OItem Status survey, distribution and habitat preferences of small carnivores in Parambikulam tiger reserve, Kerala(Department of wild life sciences,College of Forestry, Vellanikkara, 2012) Sreehari, R; Nameer, P OItem Diversity and abundance of herpectofauna in kole wetlands, Thrissur(Department of Wildlife Sciences, College of Forestry, Vellanikkara, 2011) Sreehari, V S; Nameer, P OKole wetland is an internationally important Ramsar site, an Important Bird Area and a High Value Biodiversity Area. The wetland diversity is not fully assessed in our country. Herpetofauna including the amphibians and reptiles are one of the least studied groups of animals in India as well as in Kerala. In this study, an attempt was made to understand the diversity and abundance of herpetofauna in the Kole Wetlands, which is the first ever study on the herpetofauna of the Kole wetlands. The study was mainly concentrated in four locations of Kole Wetlands viz. Adat, Enamavu, Thommana and Maranchery. The study period was divided into two seasons as wet season (June to October) and dry season (November to May) in 2011 and the difference in the population was compared. Visual encounter survey was the method to study the hepetofauna. A total of 12 species of herpetofauna was recorded in the study period which includes seven species of amphibians and five species of reptiles. Among the amphibians, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus was the most abundant and frequently seen species in the Kole Wetlands and among the reptiles, Xenochrophis piscator was the most abundant in the Kole Wetlands. Two endemic species of amphibians Hylarana malabarica which is endemic to Western Ghats and Hylarana aurantiaca which is endemic to Sri Lanka and Western Ghats was reported in the study. The maximum number of species was recorded from Enamavu and Thommana. The mortality observations showed that road kill is a serious problem for the amphibians at Kole wetlands and habitat destruction as well as poaching is also negatively affecting the populations of herpetofauna at Kole wetlands. Strict conservation measures including the non-construction of any more new roads at Kole wetlands, checking the land use or habitat conversion and strict enforcement of law against poaching could only save the herpetofauna of this internationally important wetland habitat- the Kole wetlands.