• Urmikant Maninandan Sahu
• Priti Chhatoi

World is developing at a rapid pace and increased rate of urbanization is one of the key indicators of it. By 2050, 55-75% of global population is going to be living in this urban places. To accommodate this increase in the population, cities or the urban areas will tend to extend their boundaries leading to urban expansion. This rapid growth will result in the increase in proximity between urban and protected areas. Sometimes this urban growth is even unplanned and haphazard in nature and result in habitat fragmentation and loss in flora and fauna. This paper discusses the case of Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary of Odisha, that lies partly within Khurda and partly in Cuttack Districts of the state and in close proximity of the state capital, Bhubaneswar. The urban conglomerate of Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Khurda is increasing rapidly. Bhubaneswar has engulfed Bharatpur Range Forest within the municipal limits. Through the Landsat satellite imagery, the spatial changes over the last two decades are identified using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Normalized Difference Built-up Index Values for the Sanctuary and its 5 km Buffer as delineated in the Chandaka Wildlife Management Action Plan 2011. Places that have undergone rapid spatial changes in this period has been identified using grids and further studied for the anthropogenic causes that has led to these changes. Study also considered the Elephant-Human conflict that has taken place in the nearby areas of the sanctuary due to the loss of habitats in the process of development. Finally, this study suggests broad recommendations and proposals that could be undertaken to prevent and manage the degradation of protected areas due to rapid development by introducing or remodifying the existing zoning regulation and guidelines in and around the limits of a protected area so that both nature and mankind can coexist together.

Spatial Growth, Urban expansion, Urban Sprawl, Impact on natural ecosystem, Urbanisation, Fragmentation, NDVI, NDBI, Human-elephant conflict

"IMPACT OF SPATIAL GROWTH OVER NATURAL ECOSYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF CHANDAKA WILDLIFE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.d443-d448, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307357.pdf

"IMPACT OF SPATIAL GROWTH OVER NATURAL ECOSYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF CHANDAKA WILDLIFE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppd443-d448, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307357.pdf