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Titre :	New breeding record of Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus barbatus) in Morocco and proposals for its conservation (2018)
Auteurs :	Ismael Allaoui, Auteur ; Sidi Imad Cherkaoui, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Go-south bulletin (15 2018)
Article en page(s) :	137-140
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Gypaetus barbatus ; Maroc ; Protection faune
Résumé :	Once widespread across Africa and Eurasia, Lammergeiers or Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) showed a significant decline over the last 20th century in several regions except in the reintroduction areas such as Alps and Pyrenées (BirdLife International 2018). According to the IUCN, the species is widely and disjunctly distributed across its range and it has been uplisted to Near Threatened owing to evidence that is has undergone a moderately rapid population decline over the past three generations (BirdLife International 2018). This specialist scavenger is regarded as rare and at high risk in the Maghreb region with 5-10 pairs in Morocco (Cherkaoui 2005) where it is considered critically endangered by using IUCN criteria nationally due to its extreme rarity and its tiny population (Thévenot et al. 2003). Its status in Algeria remains, however, unknown due to the absence of recent and confirmed records (Isenmann & Moali 2000), while in Tunisia the species is considered as extinct (Isenmann et al. 2005). However, two observations in 2012 and 2014 of a Bearded Vulture at Theniet El Had National Park in Algeria gave hope than the species might still survive there (Djardini et al. 2014). Surprisingly, the altitude in that particular area does not exceed 2000 m comparatively to High Atlas in Morocco where the species is mainly observed at 3000 m and above (Cuzin 2010). In North-Africa as in the rest of the African continent, the most prevalent threat to scavenging birds is said to be poisoning, either intentional or unintentional from illegal use of baits to control feral dogs and other carnivores (Margalida et al. 2008, Krüger 2015). Also it is thought that the burial of cattle carcasses throughout Morocco is a practice that avoids scavengers feeding on them, causing food shortage (Cherkaoui obs. pers). High Atlas Mountains in Morocco have been a home to large raptors species for a long time (Thevenot et al. 2003). In fact, recent records of Lammergeiers in North Africa come quite exclusively from this area (Cuzin 2010). These vultures with those recently spotted in Algeria appear to be the only known and last surviving population of the species in southern Mediterranean (Frey 1994). The survival of this small population of Lammergeiers gives hope that its entire population may not have been lost in this part of the Atlas Mountains. It is quite possible that this isolated population has been able to resist the effects of agents that have almost decimated the species elsewhere (Middle Atlas, Anti-Atlas and Rif) or may not have been exposed to the same threats.
En ligne :	www.go-south.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/gsb_15_137-140.pdf

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