Abstract :
The area of for the present biological baseline study falls under 25 villages of Sonepat District of Haryana state and 14 villages of Baghpat of Uttar Pradesh State. Most of villages in the study area (Sonepat) are engaged in vegetable cultivation and people are depended on the same, not other crops like wheat and paddy, while other part (Bapghpat), the people are engaged in farming of major crop viz. Sugar cane, Wheat and Paddy. Although, some villages near to Yamuna bank, like Kotana, Jagus, etc. are depends only on vegetables and horticultures like water melon, pumpkins, etc. The dominant trees in the study area are Azadirachta indica (Limbado), Mangifera indica (Aam), Bombax ceiba (Semal), Delonix regia (Gaulmor). The most commonly spotted bird species of this area were; Cattle Egret, Intermediate Egret, Black-winged Stilt, Red-wattled Lapwing, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Spotted Dove, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, Bank Myna and Common Myna. Only one Indian Peafowl was observed which is listed as schedule –I as per IWPA, 1972. The village ponds in Murthal, Jainpur, Tikola, Omadgarh and Yamuna River at Kotana Revenue were sampled to document the plankton diversity. Biotic communities of the in an inland water body consist of Phytoplankton (plant plankton) includes minute photosynthetic cells and microscopic unicellular and multi cellular species of several phyla of true algae, which are either solitary or colonial. The plankton study reveals that Yamuna River has no much richness of plankton biodiversity, while village ponds have much diversity of phytoplankton and zooplankton. The mining activity will be done on dry river bed except monsoon season, hence no any impact will envisaged on plankton community of the river Yamuna.
Keyword :
Conservation; Ecological impact; Flora;, Schedule; WPA.