Identify areas affected by flood risk and provide operational solutions to reduce deer losses in the Mond protected area

Subject Areas : environmental management

Esmaeil Abbasi ¹ , Hana Etemadi ²

1 - Assistant professor, Persian Gulf University
2 - Assistant professor, Persian Gulf University

Received: 2021-08-31 Accepted : 2021-12-01 Published : 2024-03-20

Keywords: Flood-Risk zoning, HEC-RAS model, Mond river, Iranian deer, Mond protected area,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: Floods, as one of the most important annual natural hazards, cause irreparable human and financial losses specially in coastal area and delta rivers. Based on the presence of Iranian deer and the risk of their extinction due to flood losses in the protected area Mond, identifying areas affected by floods and providing operational solutions to reduce the losses of this species became vitally important. So, it is the main purposes of this study. Material and Methodology: Vegetation cover, drainage density, distance from waterway, land type, land use, rainfall, land slope and land curvature have been used for modeling and zoning of floods in this study area Findings: Results show that around 1850 hectares of the protected area affected in flood time with a return period of two years. The flood zone increased by 4300 hectares with a five-year return period. Also, the flood impacted area reached to 22,700 hectares in flood with a 10-year return period. Discussion and Conclusion: According to the output maps and field data, it was concluded that the creation of low-rise platforms in the optimal habitat of deer would be the best ways to reduce deer losses by flooding. The location of these platforms chooses based on the flood zoning map, the deer presence and gathering points as well as the places with heavy loss of deers in previous floods.

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