| Titre : | Oryx 49(4) - OCT 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
M. Kamel, Auteur ;
U. M. Ghazaly, Auteur ;
M. W. Callmander, Auteur
The Nubian dragon tree Dracaena ombet, which is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, is found on the highest slopes of Gebel Elba National Park in Egypt, with scattered populations in Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia. The Gebel E[...]
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Colin A. Chapman, Auteur ;
Bianca van Bavel, Auteur ;
Carl Boodman, Auteur ;
Ria R. Ghai, Auteur ;
Jan F. Gogarten, Auteur ;
Joel Hartter, Auteur ;
Lauren E. Mechak, Auteur ;
Patrick A. Omeja, Auteur ;
Sofia Poonawala, Auteur ;
Dan Tuli, Auteur ;
Tony L. Goldberg, Auteur
Impoverished communities often turn to illegal extraction of resources from protected areas to alleviate economic pressures or to make monetary gains. Such practices can cause ecological damage and threaten animal populations. These communities [...]
Article
Benjamin J. Crain, Auteur ;
Ana Maria Sanchez-Cuervo, Auteur ;
Jeffrey W. White, Auteur ;
Steven J. Steinberg, Auteur
Effective conservation of rare plant species requires a detailed understanding of their unique distributions and habitat requirements to identify conservation targets. Research suggests that local conservation efforts may be one of the best mean[...]
Article
J. S. McManus, Auteur ;
A. J. Dickman, Auteur ;
D. Gaynor, Auteur ;
B. H. Smuts, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur
Livestock depredation has implications for conservation and agronomy; it can be costly for farmers and can prompt retaliatory killing of carnivores. Lethal control measures are readily available and are reportedly perceived to be cheaper, more p[...]
Article
V. Deepak, Auteur ;
Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Auteur
Protected areas in developing tropical countries are under pressure from local demand for resources, and therefore it is essential to monitor rare species and prevent overexploitation of resources. The Travancore tortoise Indotestudo travancoric[...]
Article
Angelique Hjarding, Auteur ;
Krystal A. Tolley, Auteur ;
Neil D. Burgess, Auteur
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species uses geographical distribution as a key criterion in assessing the conservation status of species. Accurate knowledge of a species' distribution is therefore essential to ensure the correct categorization [...]
Article
Ohiana Revuelta, Auteur ;
Yolanda M. Leon, Auteur ;
Annette C. Broderick, Auteur ;
Pablo Feliz, Auteur ;
Brendan J. Godley, Auteur ;
Juan A. Balbuena, Auteur ;
Andrea Mason, Auteur ;
Kate Poulton, Auteur ;
Stefania Savore, Auteur ;
Juan A. Raga, Auteur ;
Jesus Tomas, Auteur
The beaches of Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic are the country's last known major nesting site for the leatherback marine turtle Dermochelys coriacea. This nesting aggregation is threatened by widespread illegal egg take, and clu[...]
Article
Carla C. Eisemberg, Auteur ;
Mark Rose, Auteur ;
Benedict Yaru, Auteur ;
Arthur Georges, Auteur
Management of wildlife use by communities living a partially traditional lifestyle is usually more successful when the interactions between those communities and the environment are well understood. We mapped the harvest areas for the Vulnerable[...]
Article
Abraham Martinez-Hernandez, Auteur ;
Octavio Cesar Rosas-Rosas, Auteur ;
Fernando Clemente-Sanchez, Auteur ;
Luis Antonio Tarango-Arambula, Auteur ;
Jorge Palacio-Nunez, Auteur ;
Louis C. Bender, Auteur ;
Jose Guadalupe Herrera-Haro, Auteur
There is little information on the population status of the ocelot Leopardus pardalis in Mexico. In the Sierra Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve, in San Luis Potosi, ocelots are affected by habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of increased a[...]
Article
Anthony Caragiulo, Auteur ;
Yang Kang, Auteur ;
Salisa Rabinowitz, Auteur ;
Isabela Dias-Freedman, Auteur ;
Simone Loss, Auteur ;
Xu-Wei Zhou, Auteur ;
Wei-Dong Bao, Auteur ;
George Amato, Auteur
China is home to three subspecies of tiger Panthera tigris but there are no estimates of the size of any of the populations. We detected a population of the Endangered Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in Hunchun Nature Reserve in Jilin Provinc[...]
Article
Griet A. E. Cuyckens, Auteur ;
Miriam M. Morales, Auteur ;
Marcelo F. Tognelli, Auteur
Climate change and habitat fragmentation are considered key pressures on biodiversity, and mammalian carnivores with a limited geographical distribution are particularly vulnerable. The kodkod Leopardus guigna, a small felid endemic to the tempe[...]
Article
Louisa S. Ponnampalam, Auteur ;
J. H. Fairul Izmal, Auteur ;
Kanjana Adulyanukosol, Auteur ;
Jillian L. S. Ooi, Auteur ;
John E. Reynolds, Auteur
Conservation efforts use scientific data to provide an adaptive framework wherein habitat and wildlife sustainability can co-exist with human activities. Good science informs decision-makers and facilitates the development of successful conserva[...]
Article
Andrei Snyman, Auteur ;
Craig R. Jackson, Auteur ;
Paul J. Funston, Auteur
African lion Panthera leo populations have declined as a result of various anthropogenic factors, and most extant populations are small, which further compromises their persistence. Lions in unfenced areas are more exposed to illegal hunting, sn[...]
Article
Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Auteur ;
Michael Muehlenberg, Auteur ;
Matthias Waltert, Auteur
Nominally protected areas in Papua are under threat from encroachment, logging and hunting. The northern cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus is the largest frugivore of the lowland rainforest of New Guinea and is endemic to this region, and the[...]
Article
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Auteur ;
Susana Rostro-Garcia, Auteur ;
Dylan Burruss, Auteur ;
Alkabouss Matchano, Auteur ;
Abdoulaye Harouna, Auteur ;
Thomas Rabeil, Auteur
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Aimy Caceres, Auteur ;
Martim Melo, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Paulo Cardoso, Auteur ;
Francisco Maiato, Auteur ;
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur
Kumbira Forest is the best representative area of Angola's Central Escarpment and the only site known to hold significant populations of four of the five threatened endemic bird species of this habitat. However, the forest is disappearing as a r[...]
Article
Nicole L. Smolensky, Auteur
The conservation status of threatened taxa may be obfuscated by the detection of cryptic species complexes, in both vertebrate and invertebrate species. African dwarf crocodiles (Osteolaemus spp.) are hunted throughout their range but their cons[...]
Article
Clement G. Tweh, Auteur ;
Menladi M. Lormie, Auteur ;
Celestin Y. Kouakou, Auteur ;
Annika Hillers, Auteur ;
Hjalmar S. Kuehl, Auteur ;
Jessica Junker, Auteur
Liberia has the largest blocks of continuous forest in West Africa, providing habitat for numerous wildlife species. However, there is a lack of empirical data about the status of Liberia's wildlife populations. During 2010-2012 we conducted the[...]
