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    Forest Fragments and Vanishing Canopies – Threats and Conservation Pathways for Hornbills in the Terai Arc of Uttar Pradesh
    (M/S Academic Publishers & Distributors, Lucknow, India., 2025) Ruchira Nigam, Asif Ahmad Siddiqui, Monowar Alam Khalid, Chitra Singh
    The chapter titled Forest Fragments and Vanishing Canopies Threats and Conservation Pathways of Hornbills in the Terai Arc Landscape provides the ecological value of hornbills and the emerging threats and conservation solutions needed to maintain the population of hornbills in Terai Arc Landscape (TAL). It presents several human-related activities, such as deforestation, monoculture plantations, linear infrastructure, and agricultural development which have caused immense loss of the habitats of hornbills. Ecological backbone of the U.P. Terai is studied in terms of habitat properties, conservation lapses and management priorities of the eight safeguarded zones consisting of Dudhwa National Park, Kishanpur, Katarniaghat, Pilibhit, Sohagi Barwa, Suhelwa, Bakhira and Parvati Arga sanctuaries.