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The natural land cover in the wetland area was identified into four classes, i.e. waterlogged, open/scrub, agriculture, and settlements. In this study, the change in the LULC pattern under the classes was analyzed for the years 1988 and 2016, which is depicted in Figure 2.8. In 1988, the maximum area (59.58%) of this wetland was covered with water, followed by scrub/open (39.79%), agriculture (0.39%), and settlement (0.25%), but in 2016, waterlogged and scrub/open area were reduced to 35.84 and 29%, respectively. The average rate of the LULC pattern is shown in Table 2.2.

Figure 2.8 Area under four land use land cover change class in 1988 and 2016.

Table 2.2 Land use land cover change analysis in the Kanwar wetland between 1988 and 2016.

LU/LC class	Feb. 1988	Feb. 2016	Change	% Change	Yearly change (ha/year)
Water (ha)	1399.95	842.29	−557.66	−39.83	−19.92
Scrub/Open (ha)	934.94	681.67	−253.27	−27.09	−9.05
Agriculture (ha)	9.14	653.02	643.88	7044.64	22.99
Settlement (ha)	5.81	172.89	167.08	2875.73	5.97
Total area (ha)	2349.84	2349.87	–	–	–