Author(s):

Parikshit Srivastava and Afaq Majid Wani

Abstract: The Khasi hills community REDD⁺ project is situated in the East Khasi hills District of Meghalaya, India. It deploys strategies for both forest protection and forest degradation or restoration. The project also provides detailed and long-term plans for improving livelihood of surrounding areas. It also aims to show, halt and reserve the loss of the community forests by providing support, new technologies and financial incentives to conserve existing forests and regenerate degraded forests. The area was chosen on the grounds of established Khasi traditions of forest conservation and legal right for natural resource management. The sacred groves of Khasi hills under REDD⁺ project with total area 15,217 hectares into dense forest (9,270 ha) and open forest (5,947 ha). Such a diverse forest area needs to be monitored in order to keep a record of the different diversity parameters under check to observe species richness and evenness of the areas. The study conferred that species richness, dense forest showed more evenness, diversity as well as abundance as compared to open forests which is less diverse being a mono-species in the area.

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