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ABASRACT: Migration of nomadic gujjars is a traditional, seasonal activity associated with economic interest. Since the Neolithic revolution pastoral nomads have roamed along the fringes of settled society. Their economy mainly depends on the products of their flocks and the use of natural pastures. The reliance of nomads on their animals brings them closer to the lands where agricultural based societies are present. They are poor, illiterate and without sufficient food and other basic facilities of life and hence are dependent on natural pastures. The harmonious interaction of nomads and their environment enables them to live a sustainable existence with some detrimental impacts on local ecosystem like overgrazing, soil erosion, cutting of trees, and pollution of water bodies, air pollution etc. While no system pastoralists or nomads is in perfect symbiosis with their environment. The associated ecological problems of their lifestyle or subsistence strategies are thereby effecting the environment. There is a dire need to manage the environmental problems associated with the cattle rearing of nomads. The present study is based on primary and secondary data. With the help of questionnaire, a stratified random sample survey was undertaken, 200 local residents were interviewed, 100 in each block i.e. Marh and Satwari of Jammu District. The response to each question was calculated on five point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5. Taking into consideration the importance of pastoral mobility, necessity to equally exploit the rangelands of summer and winter pasture, their rights for grazing, and ecological imperatives for co-existence that points to a promising new direction for long-term sustainability, we only need to educate the pastoralists and local people regarding proper lifestyle that should not harm the environment.

An Impact Assessment of Nomadic Gujjars on Environment in Block Marh and Block Satwari of Jammu