Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Wildlife Management) by Subject "Africa"

Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Wildlife Management) by Subject "Africa"

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  • Evidence of a further emerging threat to lion conservation : targeted poaching for body parts 
    Everatt, K.T. (Kristoffer); Kokes, R.; Lopez Pereira, C. (Springer, 2019-12)
    The African lion, Panthera leo, has, like many of the world’s megafauna, become threatened with extinction over the past century. Loss of habitat and prey, persecution in retaliation of livestock depredation, by-catch by ...
  • Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena 
    Westbury, Michael V.; Hartmann, Stefanie; Barlow, Axel; Preick, Michaela; Ridush, Bogdan; Nagel, Doris; Rathgeber, Thomas; Ziegler, Reinhard; Baryshnikov, Gennady; Sheng, Guilian; Ludwig, Arne; Wiesel, Ingrid; Dalen, Love; Bibi, Faysal; Werdelin, Lars; Heller, Rasmus; Hofreiter, Michael (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-13)
    The genus Crocuta (African spotted and Eurasian cave hyenas) includes several closely related extinct and extant lineages. The relationships among these lineages, however, are contentious. Through the generation ...
  • Remotely piloted aircraft systems as a rhinoceros anti-poaching tool in Africa 
    Mulero-Pazmany, Margarita; Stolper, Roel; Van Essen, L.D.; Negro, Juan J.; Sassen, Tyrell (Public Library of Science, 2014-01-08)
    Over the last years there has been a massive increase in rhinoceros poaching incidents, with more than two individuals killed per day in South Africa in the first months of 2013. Immediate actions are needed to preserve ...
  • Survival rates and causes of mortality of leopards Panthera pardus in southern Africa 
    Swanepoel, Lourens Hendrik; Somers, Michael J.; Van Hoven, Wouter; Schiess-Meier, Monika; Owen, Gailey; Snyman, Andrei; Martins, Quinton; Senekal, Charl; Camacho, Gerrie C.; Boshoff, Willem; Dalerum, Fredrik (Cambridge University Press, 2015-10)
    Estimation of survival rates is important for developing and evaluating conservation options for large carnivores. However, telemetry studies for large carnivores are often characterized by small sample sizes that ...