Remote Sensing Technologies are important in the assessment land use land cover changes in general and forest cover
changes in particular. It is used to evaluate the habitat of different animal species which is in fact the first step towards
meaningful wildlife conservation and management. The present study aims to study the degrading habitat of swamp deer or
Barasingha in Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary. Once widely distributed its population has recently declined significantly due to
loss of its habitat for cultivation or tree plantations, poaching and other human interventions. In this paper, spatio-temporal
changes in land use land cover especially the forest cover has been made. Also the habitat problems faced by Swamp deer in the
sanctuary have been enquired into.
