KBA Profile: Moyar River National Site Name Moyar River English Name KBA delineation Focal area delineation Site description Management required at catchment scale Management required at focal area within catchment Catchment yes - The mudumalai Tiger Reserve (for the endemic species Puntius mudumalaiensis) The Moyar River is an east flowing river originates in the Mudumalai, Bandipur, and Wayanad National Parks draining the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and is a tributary to the Cauvery River. The upper areas of the catchment are a mosaic of forest, and teak, coffee, rubber and eucalyptus plantations, in the lower elevations it is mostly arecanut, banana and palm cultivation and urban areas. The KBA has one endemic fish, and one endemic crab species. KBA Trigger Species Group Species Criterion1 Criterion2 Criterion3 Notes Crabs Vela carli NA 3891.930182 NA Fishes Barbodes bovanicus CR NA NA Endemic to the Moyar and Bhavani KBAs Fishes Devario neilgherriensis EN 7054.488363 NA Endemic to the Moyar and Bhavani KBAs Fishes Hemibagrus punctatus CR 14130.24971 NA Fishes Hypselobarbus micropogon EN 5360.083209 NA Fishes Nemacheilus monilis NA 10632.57541 NA Fishes Nemacheilus nilgiriensis NA 14677.50177 NA Fishes Nemacheilus pulchellus EN NA NA
Fishes Osteochilichthys brevidorsalis NA 17719.15974 NA Fishes Puntius arulius EN NA NA Fishes Puntius cauveriensis EN NA NA Fishes Puntius mudumalaiensis VU 15002.15774 NA Endemic to KBA Odonata Burmagomphus laidlawi NA 19768.56262 NA Odonata Caconeura gomphoides NA 15880.73167 NA Odonata Chlorogomphus campioni NA 18953.86679 NA Odonata Epithemis mariae NA 32143.88717 NA Odonata Idionyx nadganiensis NA 18734.76843 NA Odonata Idionyx nilgiriensis NA 4084.016725 NA Odonata Idionyx saffronata NA 24819.16101 NA Odonata Indolestes pulcherrimus NA 11514.71019 NA Odonata Macrogomphus wynaadicus NA 26655.61097 NA Odonata Macromia bellicosa NA 21325.4282 NA Odonata Macromia cingulata NA 39140.78864 NA Odonata Macromia ellisoni NA 24425.14736 NA Odonata Macromia flavocolorata NA 21648.41687 NA Odonata Macromia ida NA 16836.08527 NA Odonata Macromia indica NA 15071.65659 NA Odonata Macromia irata NA 16836.08527 NA Odonata Macromidia donaldi NA 18660.90733 NA Odonata Megalogomphus hannyngtoni NA 11514.71019 NA Odonata Megalogomphus superbus NA 10298.96507 NA
Odonata Merogomphus longistigma NA 26458.05683 NA Odonata Onychogomphus nilgiriensis NA 27739.64776 NA Odonata Onychogomphus striatus NA 7054.488363 NA Plants Hydrocotyle conferta EN NA NA Plants Oreogrammitis austroindica NA 1702.762813 NA Plants Scleria mikawana NA 1702.762813 NA Crabs Vanni nilgiriensis NA 703.4060128 Fishes Hypselobarbus dubius EN Protected Areas Overlap with KBA Name Designation Desig. Type Status PA Management Focus Wayanad Sanctuary National Designated No freshwater biodiversity management Mudumalai Sanctuary National Designated No freshwater biodiversity management Bandipur National Park National Designated No freshwater biodiversity management Western Ghats World Heritage Site International Inscribed No freshwater biodiversity management Mudumalai National Park National Designated No freshwater biodiversity management Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Add - National Potential KBA Stakeholders* Keystone Foundation Tamil Nadu State Forestry Department Department of Wildlife, Government Arts College, Ooty
WWF India Wildlife Trust of India Nature Conservation Foundation Forestry College of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Arulagam Karunya University Care Earth Accord The Shola Trust Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board Jungle Scapes Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Station KBA Freshwater Habitats 5.1 Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks(includes waterfalls) 5.2 Seasonal/Intermittent/Irregular Rivers/Streams/Creeks 5.5 Permanent Freshwater Lakes(over 8ha) 5.7 Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools(under 8ha) 15.1 Water Storage Areas(over 8ha) Threats to KBA Threats (IUCN Classification Scheme) Notes
1.1 Housing & urban areas 1.2 Commercial & industrial areas 1.3 Tourism & recreation areas 2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops 3.2 Mining & quarrying Sand mining 7.2 Dams & water management/use 8.1 Invasive non-native/alien species/diseases 9.1 Domestic & urban waste water 9.2 Industrial & military effluents 9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents 9.4 Garbage & solid waste Conservation actions for KBA Conservation actions (IUCN Classification Scheme) In place Needed Notes 1.2 Resource & habitat protection 2.1 Site/area management 2.2 Invasive/problematic species control Upper Bjavani Bison Swamp Management and research is needed within the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve for the KBA endemic species (Puntius mudumalaiensis). Wider catchment management is required for the other threatened species that are found throughout the catchment 4.1 Formal education Forest Department 4.2 Training Forest Department
4.3 Awareness & communications 5.4 Compliance and enforcement All stakeholders Implementation of Wetland (Conservation and Management) Act 2010 & Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974. Food Security Used for food security Score Notes 1. Subsistence Optional/alternative 0 Essential staple 1 Emergency 0 2. Commercial Local 1 Regional 0 National 0 3.Migrant fishers 0 Notes Other Other biodiversity Eumyias albicaudatus (NT) and Ficedula nigrorufa (NT) are two species of birds found in the Bison swamps of the Moyar river. Protected areas overview 1. Ali, A., Dahanukar, N., Kanagavel, A., Philip, S. and Raghavan, R. 2013. Records of the endemic and threatened catfish, Hemibagrus punctatus from the southern Western Ghats with notes on its distribution, ecology and conservation status. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(11): 4569 4578
References Acknowledgments 2. Manimekalan, A. 1998. The fishes of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 95(3): 431 443. 3. Menon, A. G. K. and Rema Devi, K. 1992. Puntius mudumalaiensis, a new cyprinid fish from Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society v. 89 (pt 2): 229-231. Dahanukar, N., Jayachandran, K.V., Irudayaraj, V., Iyer, P., Katwate, U., Krutha, S.K., Molur, S., Pati, S.K., Pragatheesh, A. Raghavan, R., Rehel, S.M., Sivaramakrishnan, K.G. and Subbramanian, K.A. * Potential KBA stakeholders have not been contacted in any official capacity nor have they endorsed the KBA they are a list of potential stakeholders to inform any organisation or individual who may want to undertake conservation activities on freshwater biodiversity in this KBA