Record | Species Use Database

A. Species

Scientific name: Saara hardwickii

Common name(s): Indus Valley spiny-tail ground lizard

Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Vulnerable

B. Location of use

Geographic location(s):

Pakistan

Country/Region:

C. Scale of assessment

Scale of assessment: National Level

Name/Details of location: Pakistan

D. Timescale of use

Start Year: 1997

End Year: 2019

E. Information about the use

How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Type of use: Extractive

Practice of use: Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals

Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal

Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism

Purpose(s) of end use: Medicine and hygiene

Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community) and Traditional/Cultural/Spiritual

Is this use legal or illegal?: not recorded

F. Information about the Users

Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and National / local government

G. Information about the sustainability of use

Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species

Record source

Information about the record source: formal_data_stats

Date of publication/issue/production: 2020-01-01T00:00:00+0000

Source Reference(s):

Samar, M., Khan, H., Ullah, S., Haroon Hamed, M., Altaf, M., And Kashmir, J., & Bagh, P. (2020). A study of illegal wildlife trade and seizures in Pakistan. In Journal of Wildlife and Ecology (Vol. 4, Issue 4).

Arshad, M., M. Ahmad, E. Ahmed, A. Saboor, A. Abbas, S. Sadiq. 2014. An ethnobiological
study in Kala Chitta hills of Pothwar region, Pakistan: multinomial logit specification. J
Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 10: 13.

Altaf, M., M. Umair, A.R. Abbasi, N. Muhammad, A.M. Abbasi. 2018. Ethnomedicinal
applications of animal species by the local communities of Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of
ethnobiology and ethnomedicine. 14: 1-25.

Date of record entry: 2024-06-30

Species Use Database

Indus Valley spiny-tail ground lizard Saara hardwickii