Showing papers in "Oryx in 1983"
TL;DR: What's Wildlife Worth? by Robert and Christine Prescott-Allen as mentioned in this paper provides a more condensed style, providing a review of the many and varied uses of wildlife and the potential economic importance of wild species, particularly to the developing world, is stressed.
Abstract: What's Wildlife Worth? by Robert and Christine Prescott-Allen has a similar theme but a more condensed style, providing a review of the many and varied uses of wildlife. Again the potential economic importance of wild species, particularly to the developing world, is stressed. As the authors state, 'Wild plants and animals make their greatest contribution to human survival and wellbeing precisely in those poor rural economies where their use is usually grossly underestimated. ' In being all-embracing, coverage in parts is sketchy, but as a catalogue of wildlife resources, this book is invaluable. Again a useful reference section is included.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the reasons for translocation, the many problems involved and the special cases where such an exercise may be justified, as well as some special cases in which translocating animals into the wild may not be justified.
Abstract: Releasing animals into the wild, especially when they have become extinct there, is an appealing and dramatic conservation technique. It is, however, fraught with risks and often expensive; its success depends upon meticulous planning. The authors discuss the reasons for translocation, the many problems involved and the special cases where such an exercise may be justified.
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TL;DR: The first findings of Andrew Laurie's three-year field study of the endemic marine iguanas of Galapagos show that the situation is more complicated.
Abstract: The endemic marine iguanas of Galapagos are in severe danger of extinction on some islands. Predation by introduced cats, dogs, pigs and rats is one cause but the first findings of Andrew Laurie's three-year field study, which started in 1981, show that the situation is more complicated.
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TL;DR: The huemul has vanished from much of its historic range in Chile and Argentina; now perhaps only 1300 are left as discussed by the authors, and since 1976, wildlife guards have been protecting hUemuls in some parts of Chile and in 1977, a hUEMUL guard station was built at the Rio Claro with ffPS support.
Abstract: The huemul has vanished from much of its historic range in Chile and Argentina; now perhaps only 1300 are left. Since 1976, wildlife guards have been protecting huemuls in some parts of Chile and in 1977 a huemul guard station was built at the Rio Claro with ffPS support. In 1980–81 the author censused the known huemul populations in Chile and reports on their present status, evaluates the conservation measures that are being taken and recommends further action needed to save them.
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TL;DR: The author has been resident scientist and naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands during 1970-72 and 1976-79, and throughout has been associated with sea-bird conservation in the archipelago as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The author has been resident scientist and naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands during 1970–72 and 1976–79, and throughout has been associated with sea-bird conservation in the archipelago. In July 1982, he visited the islands once again, and here reports on the effect of tourism on Galapagos wildlife over the 11-year period. Some of this work has be aided by the ffPS 100% Fund.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effectiveness of the plan in protecting the primate families Callitrichidae, Callimiconidae and Cebidae and suggested how it could be adapted by recognising the importance of rivers, which limit the distributions of many primate species and subspecies as well as those of many other mammals, birds and plants.
Abstract: In 1979 there was only one national park in the forested Amazon region of Brazil. In that year Brazil adopted a conservation plan for the Amazonian region, proposed in 1976 as part of a system of conservation units for the whole country. Since then a further four national parks and a number of biological reserves and ecological stations have been established. The plan, which gives priority to ecosystem protection, takes the geographic diversity of plant species into consideration but not that of the fauna. The authors examine the effectiveness of the plan in protecting the primate families Callitrichidae, Callimiconidae and Cebidae and suggest how it could be adapted by recognising the importance of rivers, which limit the distributions of many primate species and subspecies as well as those of many other mammals, birds and plants.
TL;DR: The authors made a series of visits to the area to investigate the status of the wildlife and to look at conservation measures.
Abstract: Ladakh, a remote region of India lying between the Himalayas and Tibet, is ethnically and geographically distinct from the rest of the country. Because of its isolation, change came later to Ladakh than to other parts of the Himalayas, but recent years have seen the familiar pattern of social change, human population increase, tourism and rural development beginning to affect the environment. The authors, jointly and individually, made a series of visits to the area to investigate the status of the wildlife and to look at conservation measures.
TL;DR: Huang Chuchien as discussed by the authors described the serious plight of China's endemic alligator which had disappeared from most of its historic range and had been listed as a First Class Protected Animal.
Abstract: In Oryx, October 1981, Huang Chuchien described the serious plight of China’s endemic alligator which had disappeared from most of its historic range and had been listed as a First Class Protected Animal. Earlier that year the author had joined him and other scientists to make a more complete study of the animal, to which ffPS contributed £100. The results of the study suggest that the alligator will perhaps only continue to exist in the wild for a few more years. The main hope for their conservation lies in alligator farming.
TL;DR: Rodrigues, the smallest of the three Mascarene islands, is in immediate danger of losing most of its native vegetation due to the activities of man and introduced cattle and goats.
Abstract: Rodrigues, the smallest of the three Mascarene islands, is in immediate danger of losing most of its native vegetation due to the activities of man and introduced cattle and goats. The endemic fauna has mostly disappeared, leaving two endangered land birds and a fruit bat, and most of the plants may soon follow: seven native species are known only from five or fewer individuals. The author visited Rodrigues for two weeks in June and July 1982 with the Director of the Conservatoire Botanique of Stangalarch, Brest, France, in an effort to locate and propagate many of the rare species.
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TL;DR: The African wild ass is endangered and listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at its meeting in April 1983 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The African wild ass is endangered. Its habitat is a drought-stricken war zone; its flesh is eaten and is believed to cure hepatitis; it is eagerly sought by dealers and collectors. The author, Chief Curator at Israel's Hai-Bar reserve, examines the problems hindering the conservation of this animal and explains why it is urgently necessary to list it on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at its meeting in April 1983.
TL;DR: The Barbary macaque Macaca sylvanus is the only African non-human primate found north of the Sahara and the only member of its genus found outside Asia and is threatened by further habitat destruction as well as hunting.
Abstract: The Barbary macaque Macaca sylvanus has been listed in the IUCN Red Data Book since 1975. This monkey is the only African non-human primate found north of the Sahara and the only member of its genus found outside Asia. It originally ranged throughout most of North Africa but its present and restricted distribution is the result of centuries of human interference and incursions into the once widespread primaeval habitats where it was common. It is now confined to a few pockets in Morocco and Algeria where it is threatened by further habitat destruction as well as hunting.
TL;DR: In the half million hectares of the remote El Tuparro National Park, on the Venezuelan frontier, the abundant wildlife includes the Orinoco crocodile and a good population of the endangered giant otter.
Abstract: In the half million hectares of the remote El Tuparro National Park, on the Venezuelan frontier, the abundant wildlife includes the Orinoco crocodile and a good population of the endangered giant otter. Hitherto access to the park has been poor, and the only people are a few settlers and Indians hunting with bows and arrows, but new roads are bringing in both new settlers and vehicle drivers with guns.
TL;DR: A field survey of Heosemys silvatica was conducted by the first author and carried out between 26 October and 5 November 1982 in south-west India as discussed by the authors, where only two museum specimens of the small terrestrial emydid turtle were available.
Abstract: While information was being gathered for Part 1 of the new IUCN Amphibia-Reptiha Red Data Book, dealing with crocodilians and chelonians (Groombridge, 1982), it became evident that one small terrestrial emydid turtle, Heosemys silvatica, was known to science by only two museum specimens, both collected i n 1911 in hill rain forest in south-west India (Henderson, 1912) The apparent rarity of the species, and the extent to which rain forests in south-west India have been destroyed or modified, led to concern for the species's survival and made a survey of the type locality a matter of priority The species was included, with ‘Indeterminate’ status, in the new Red Data Book This paper is a pre liminary report of a brief field survey initiated by the first author and carried out between 26 October and 5 November 1982
TL;DR: In this article, the Royal Geographical Society sent one of the largest expeditions it has ever mounted to Sarawak to study and survey the newly gazetted Gunung Mulu National Park.
Abstract: In 1977£78 the Royal Geographical Society sent one of the largest expeditions it has ever mounted to Sarawak to study and survey the newly gazetted Gunung Mulu National Park. The expedition was carried out with the full cooperation of the Sarawak Government particularly the Forest Department under whose care the National Parks in Sarawak reside. Over a period of 15 months 115 scientists spent 10,000 man-days in this wonderfully rich area: over 2500 plants have been identified, 60 mammals, including the world's smallest, Savi's pygmy shrew, over 260 birds, including all Borneo's eight hornbill species, and 320 fish. Insects may number 12,000 species and fungi over 8000.
TL;DR: The Monito gecko was first discovered in 1974 on Isla Monito in the Caribbean and was reported to be threatened by introduced rats as mentioned in this paper, and was listed as endangered by the USA.
Abstract: When the Monito gecko was first discovered in 1974 on Isla Monito in the Caribbean it was apparently threatened by introduced rats. In 1982 a survey by the authors showed that the species is indeed rare and is restricted to two small areas of the tiny island but further work is needed to establish the reasons; the rats are the most obvious, but as yet unproven, cause. Meanwhile the gecko has been listed as endangered by the USA. This alone will not help but it is a start in the conservation of the species.