Zoning of Ghalle Shadab Non-Hunting Area in Khuzestan Using GIS

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Abstract

Ghalle Shadab region with an area of 4157 hectares is located in the province of Khuzestan, north of the city of Dezful. This region since 1387 is designated as non-hunting area to reduce hunting pressure and preventing habitat loss. The present study aims to zoning of non-hunting area of Ghalle Shadab region in order to achieve the best model of conservation and development. In the zoning process, maps of environmental unit was formed after identifying the ecological and socio-economic resources (scale 1:25000) using geographic information system (GIS) analysis and integration of ecological data (system-based approach), and after the preparation of special ecological models for park management, zoning of the region was done and zoning map were developed as a planning unit.
The results shows that in the present study area zoning are as bellow: safe zone 27.45 percent, protection zone 51.95 percent, extensive use zone 14.21 percent, intensive use zone 0.831 percent, cultural-historical zone 1.93 percent, recovery zone 3 percent, special use zone 0.024 percent and buffer zone 1.12 percent.

Keywords

Main Subjects