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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
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) Download as PDF |
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