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December
2009
Fishing Cat Conservation and Research
Project
The Fishing Cat Research and Conservation
Project identifies viable populations of fishing cats in Southeast Asia supports
direct action to conserve those populations. The project does this by conducting
field research, supporting effective habitat management, and by initiating and
supporting education and outreach activities.
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September
2009
Kids
for Cats - Drawing Contest
Grade
6 students from the Aebnit School in Muri, Switzerland,
presented their cat art work
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June
2009
Connecting biological and socio-cultural dimensions of
conservation: a strategy to engender positive attitudes towards the kodkod cat, within rural communities
in Southern Chile
We are working to inform rural communities in Southern Chile about the kodkod - helping those best
placed to influence the species’ future conservation to appreciate its unique
value within the context of its temperate rainforest habitat. Our approach
combines ecological research with intergenerational environmental education in the
Andean foothills.
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May
2009
Consequences of different forest management
strategies for felids in Sabah, Malaysia
Many carnivores are under severe threat
from permanent loss of suitable habitat. To ensure their long-term protection,
an ecologically and economically sustainable large scale habitat management is
required. We evaluate the consequences of different forms of forest exploitation
for the distribution of felids in Sabah. All results will be used to compile
management and conservation plans for these threatened species in close
collaboration with local counterparts.
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March
2009
Lions of Pendjari. Analysis of social structure, ecology of
lions and human-lion conflicts in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve,
Benin
This project on lion in Benin is an effort to fill the great
gap in knowledge of this species in West Africa where lion is classified as
Regionally Endangered since 2004. The project aims at assessing characteristics
of livestock predation by carnivores, attitudes and perceptions of local people
towards carnivores and predation in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve,
Benin.
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June
2008
Repaint the Stripes: Research-based
Sumatran Tiger Conservation in a Multi-use Landscape
The island of
Sumatra, Indonesia, is home to one of the most threatened subspecies of tigers
surviving in the wild: Panthera tigris sumatrae. As part of WWF’s intervention and
my Virginia Tech’s Student Research in Riau Province, this project aims to
deliver improved knowledge of the tiger’s ecology, which will inform land use
and conservation management decisions, and improved security for tigers.
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April
2008
Phylogeography of Indian populations of jungle cat (Felis
chaus) and leopard cat (Prionailurus
bengalensis)
The
family Felidae is well represented in India, with 15 species occurring here,
making it the richest in cats worldwide. However, except for the large cats the
rest figure very poorly in research and conservation policies in the country,
probably because of their rarity and elusive nocturnal habits, coupled with
cumbersome bureaucratic formalities in studying rare species. Fortunately, in
the past few years non-invasive molecular techniques have been introduced in
wildlife research in India, which has made small cat research easier.
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March
2008
Persian
Leopard Conservation in Bamu National Park
The
biologists of our NGO, Plan for the Land Society, surveyed numerous leopard
habitats throughout protected areas of Iran and have chosen Bamu National Park
in the Fars Province (southern Iran) for our project “Persian Leopard Ecology
and Conservation in Iran” study. The reasons of this selection are relatively
high leopard density, rapid habitat fragmentation, escalated poacher-warden
conflicts and prey reduction in Bamu NP.
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December
2007
Jaguar
Juruena
We
are recording cattle depredation by jaguars and local
opinion to resolve the conflict in ranches and rural
settlements surrounding the “Juruena” National Park
in Southern Amazon, Brazil. We are also using camera-traps,
tracks, and interviews with local residents to assess
status, distribution and hunting of jaguars and their
natural preys for the different areas.
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October
2007 Natural history and
conservation of Geoffroy’s cat in Argentina
The Geoffroy’s cat is a
little known South American felid recently upgraded to the “near threatened”
category due to human-related impacts upon its populations. This
multi-disciplinary project is collecting critical data necessary to develop a
conservation strategy for Geoffroy´s cat and to evaluate population viability
and conservation needs of this species outside protected areas in Argentina.
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June
2007
Ecology and Conservation
of Four Sympatric Cat Species in the Argentinean Monte
This
project is aiming to contribute to the conservation of a unique and very little
understood cat guild that occurs in a threatened landscape of Argentina,
through the understanding of species-specific ecological requirements and
interspecific interactions as well as awareness raising activities.
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April
2007
Cheetah Conservation
Botswana
CCB aims to preserve Botswana’s cheetah population through scientific
research, community outreach and education. It works with rural communities to
promote coexistence with Botswana’s rich diversity of predator species.
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December
2006
Bornean Wild Cat and Clouded Leopard Project
This
project, a
collaborative effort between the Global Canopy Programme and the University
Malaysia Sabah, aims to assist
the conservation of the five species of wild cat found on Borneo. The project
will gather baseline information regarding the ecology of these
felids, increase awareness of wild cats in Sabah, Malaysia, and build capacity
for mammal field research in Malaysia.
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November
2006
Conflict resolution and
leopard (Panthera pardus) conservation
in a human dominated landscape
The last decade has seen an
increase in human leopard conflict in many parts of India. All sites but one
are human dominated landscapes inhabited by high densities of people. One of
the severely affected states used to be Maharashtra where more than 150 people
were attacked by leopards between 2002 and 2004 and at least 200 leopards were
captured in the same period. We are studying
the reasons for the increase in conflict.
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June
2006
Conservation and
ecology of the huiña cat (Oncifelis
guigna) in northwestern Patagonia (Argentina)
The huiña is the smallest cat of the Valdivian forest
(Chile and Argentina) and the only carnivore endemic to the southern Andean
forests. It has one of the most restricted distributions of any carnivore and
is considered one of the two most threatened wild cats in South America. But very little information is available about its
ecology, habitat requirements and threats.
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May
2006
The Foraging Ecology and Conservation of Pallas Cat in Central
Mongolia
The steppes of Mongolia are one of the few places in the world
containing healthy populations of Pallas cat. This project is a joint venture
between Mongolian and foreign researchers set up to address our poor
understanding of the ecology and conservation issues of Pallas cat by intensive
field based research.
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March
2006
Ecology and behaviour
of two sympatric felids, the Andean cat (Oreailurus jacobita)
and pampas cat (Oncifelis colocolo) in Khastor (Southern Bolivia)
The present project was
proposed in response to the lack of information on the Andean cat and the
pampas cat and to the necessity to gather basic biological and ecological
information of both species to propose conservation actions.
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February
2006
Genetic diversity and relatedness in the lynx
population in Bialowieza Primeval Forest – environmental and social
circumstances
The ecology and
spatial organization of Eurasian lynx population has been studied in Bialowieza
Forest since 1991. This project is to study the effect of forest fragmentation
on genetic diversity of lynx population and the relationship between kinship
and social behaviour in lynx.
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January
2006
Large Predator
Research Programme for the Shashe Limpopo Region
The Shashe Limpopo
Predator Research Group (S-LPRG) was formed as
a result of the realisation that the populations of six predator species
(lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, spotted hyaena and brown hyaena)
occurred across the borders of the three countries that share the confluence
(Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe) and that there was a need for
collaboration across borders to collect and collate data regarding the status,
distribution, movement patterns and hotspots of human-predator conflict.
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November
2005
Conservation biology
of leopards (Panthera pardus) in a
fragmented landscape; spatial ecology, population biology and human threats
The Mun-Ya-Wana
Leopard Project was established in April 2002 to investigate the impacts of
legal and illegal persecution of leopards in northern Kwa Zulu-Natal, South
Africa, and to assess the long-term sustainability of this population under
increasing human pressure.
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October
2005
Census and monitoring
of the Zakouma lion population, Chad
The Zakouma Lion
Study is a multidisciplinary lion research project and started in March 2003 in
the Zakouma National Park, South-Eastern Chad. It aims at
acquiring a better knowledge of the Zakouma National Park lion population and
its chances of survival in the park.
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September
2005
Pampas cat ecology
and conservation in the Brazilian grasslands
The
main goal of the study on pampas cats in the Brazilian
grasslands is to rise information on the ecology of
the species, including data on diseases, genetics and
threats.
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August
2005
Conservation Genetics
and Behavioural Ecology of the African Wildcat in the southern Kalahari
The
study on the African wildcat in the southern Kalahari
focuses on conservation genetics, behavioural ecology,
and sociality and social evolution in the ancestor of
the domestic cat.
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July
2005
Wild Cats of Brazil Project / Projeto Gatos do Mato -
Brasil
Project Wild Cats of Brazil is a large scale multidisciplinary effort
to study Brazilian felids. It started recently as a project on the biology,
distribution and conservation status of the little spotted cat (Leopardus
tigrinus), that joined together all researchers conducting field work with
the species throughout Brazil. This small cat is currently the main focus, but
the project greatly expanded to include all other felids in all Brazilian
biomes.
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June
2005
Lynx translocation to the eastern Swiss Alps (LUNO)
Two reintroduced populations of the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) exist in the Alps, one in the north-western Alps of Switzerland and France and one in the eastern Alps, in the triangle of Slovenia, Austria and Italy. But up to now, they are separated and isolated. To support the spread of the elusive species across the Alpine Arc, the authorities of some cantons in eastern Switzerland decided to reintroduce lynx and so to create a stepping-stone between the western and eastern occurrence. Nine lynx were so far released in the northern Alps south of the Lake of Constance.
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