OryxPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001242
Markéta Rejlková, Muhammad Iqram
{"title":"Endemic crabs from ancient Sulawesi lakes under double threat","authors":"Markéta Rejlková, Muhammad Iqram","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140527115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001540
R. Kennerley, Thomas Lacher, Nate Upham, S. Turvey
{"title":"Highlighting the importance of IUCN Species Survival Commission Specialist Groups at the International Mammalogical Congress","authors":"R. Kennerley, Thomas Lacher, Nate Upham, S. Turvey","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140519879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001552
Sally Ashby
{"title":"Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis by Veronica Strang (2023) 280 pp., The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA. ISBN 978-1-78914-688-2 (hbk), USD 45.00.","authors":"Sally Ashby","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140516774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001862
Melissa Arias, H. N. Sackey, Reshu Bashyal
{"title":"Local impact, global challenge: the role of domestic markets in the illegal wildlife trade","authors":"Melissa Arias, H. N. Sackey, Reshu Bashyal","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140523079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001357
Yulita Kusumadewi, R.M. Wiwied Widodo, Kusuma Rahmawati, B. A. Pratama, Gustaman Syah, Ignasius Suriyanto, A. Randi, Simon Petrus, H. H. Rachmat
{"title":"Rescuing the rare monotypic Aetoxylon sympetalum from remnant forests in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan","authors":"Yulita Kusumadewi, R.M. Wiwied Widodo, Kusuma Rahmawati, B. A. Pratama, Gustaman Syah, Ignasius Suriyanto, A. Randi, Simon Petrus, H. H. Rachmat","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140527236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001485
Gaurav Vashistha, Vivek Ranjan, Devvrat Singh, Shantanu S. Ugemuge, Akash Deep Badhawan, Pulkit Gupta
{"title":"Status of the Critically Endangered gharial Gavialis gangeticus in the upper Ghaghara River, India, and its conservation in the Girwa–Ghaghara Rivers","authors":"Gaurav Vashistha, Vivek Ranjan, Devvrat Singh, Shantanu S. Ugemuge, Akash Deep Badhawan, Pulkit Gupta","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001485","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The gharial Gavialis gangeticus is a Critically Endangered crocodilian endemic to the Indian subcontinent. Habitat modification by river damming and water extraction has caused a severe decline in its population. The status of the gharial is known within protected areas, but there have been few surveys for this species in unprotected areas. In Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, a breeding gharial population in Girijapuri Barrage Reservoir has low recruitment, and it has been hypothesized that yearlings disperse downstream into the unprotected Ghaghara River when the barrage gates are opened. We surveyed a 100-km stretch of the Ghaghara River from the Girijapuri Barrage to Chahlari Ghat, observing a total of 84 gharials, including a high proportion of juveniles. A survey in 2021 from Chahlari Ghat to Ayodhya observed 174 gharials, giving a combined total of 258 gharials in a 219-km stretch of the Ghaghara River for the two surveys. Together, these findings confirm the presence of a significant population of gharials in the Ghaghara River. We recommend the adoption of an integrated approach, involving government agencies and local communities along the river, to conserve the protected Girwa–Kaudiyala Rivers and the unprotected Ghaghara River for gharial conservation and recovery. Such a programme will need to tackle the threats facing the gharial and establish baseline data and long-term monitoring protocols for freshwater species conservation in this river system.","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138947498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001424
Charlotte E. Searle, Paolo Strampelli, Leonard Haule, Singira N. Parsais, Kandey Olesyapa, Nasri Dadi Salum, Dennis Ikanda, Samuel Mtoka, Germanus Hape, Daniel Mathayo, Manase Elisa, Alex L. Lobora, Amy J. Dickman
{"title":"Cheetahs in Tanzania's Selous–Nyerere ecosystem: lack of evidence for current persistence, and reflections on historical status","authors":"Charlotte E. Searle, Paolo Strampelli, Leonard Haule, Singira N. Parsais, Kandey Olesyapa, Nasri Dadi Salum, Dennis Ikanda, Samuel Mtoka, Germanus Hape, Daniel Mathayo, Manase Elisa, Alex L. Lobora, Amy J. Dickman","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001424","url":null,"abstract":"The cheetah <jats:italic>Acinonyx jubatus</jats:italic> has suffered considerable range contractions in recent decades. Despite the importance of up-to-date information on distribution to guide conservation, such information is lacking for large areas within the species’ remaining potential range. In Tanzania, the largest tract of potential cheetah habitat without such data is the Selous–Nyerere ecosystem. Although the cheetah is considered possibly extant in this landscape, the last confirmed sighting was in the late 1990s. During 2020–2022, we carried out sign-based (spoor) and camera-trap surveys across Selous Game Reserve and Nyerere National Park. We did not record any evidence of cheetah presence, and opportunistic enquiries with tourism operators and protected area management staff did not provide any evidence of current or recent presence. Our findings suggest that current cheetah presence is unlikely, and that Selous–Nyerere should not be treated as potential contemporary cheetah range. We discuss the possibility that Selous–Nyerere may have never hosted a resident cheetah population, and was either occasionally occupied by dispersers from other populations or represented the edge of populations that spanned areas now treated as corridors.","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138685367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001278
Muzaffar A. Kichloo, Asha Sohil, Neeraj Sharma
{"title":"Living with leopards: an assessment of conflict and people's attitudes towards the common leopard Panthera pardus in a protected area in the Indian Himalayan region","authors":"Muzaffar A. Kichloo, Asha Sohil, Neeraj Sharma","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001278","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Protected areas are important for wildlife conservation but they are also used by many local communities for livelihood activities. This often leads to conflicts and erodes the tolerance of local people for wildlife, particularly towards carnivores that prey on livestock. To enhance conservation success and improve the social carrying capacity of carnivores, it is essential to understand the factors influencing such conflicts and the attitudes of people interacting with carnivores. We used structured questionnaire surveys to assess the extent of livestock mortality and community responses to common leopards <span>Panthera pardus</span> in Kishtwar National Park, a relatively understudied protected area in the Greater Himalayan region of India. The mountainous Park and its surroundings have historically served as a haven for the local agro-pastoralists and transhumant pastoralists, resulting in complex human–wildlife interactions across the larger landscape. Our results showed that leopards were responsible for high livestock depredation (71 incidents in 2 years), and households with larger livestock holdings experienced a higher predation rate compared to those with smaller livestock holdings. An ordinal logistic regression model revealed that respondents’ age and period of activity in the Park significantly influenced their opinions regarding leopards. Large losses suffered by otherwise low-income households resulted in more negative attitudes towards these predators. Our study indicates that financial compensation for livestock losses is a key factor in improving human–leopard coexistence. A comprehensive, cross-sector collaborative approach would help to improve conflict resolution and promote favourable attitudes towards these predators.</p>","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138629495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OryxPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323001266
Sneha Narayan, Tanushree Srivastava, Gayathri Sreedharan, Bapin K. Panda, Javaid Hameed, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, P. Anuradha Reddy
{"title":"Genetic insights to assist management of the Critically Endangered hangul Cervus hanglu hanglu in the Kashmir Himalaya","authors":"Sneha Narayan, Tanushree Srivastava, Gayathri Sreedharan, Bapin K. Panda, Javaid Hameed, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, P. Anuradha Reddy","doi":"10.1017/s0030605323001266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605323001266","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The hangul <span>Cervus hanglu hanglu</span>, a Critically Endangered mountain ungulate of Jammu and Kashmir, India, faces the imminent threat of population loss and extinction. Effective management of its largest viable population in Dachigam National Park in the Kashmir Himalaya requires reliable demographic information. Using 14 microsatellite markers we identified 293 individuals (208 females and 85 males) through faecal analysis, and generated data on the genetic status and population size of the hangul in its winter habitat. The mean expected and observed heterozygosities of 0.62 and 0.59 are comparable to those of several red deer <span>Cervus elaphus</span> populations elsewhere. The effective population sizes were 46.3 and 93.7 when the frequencies of rare alleles were considered to be 0.050 and 0.010, respectively. The average mean kinship of the population was 0.34, and there was no evidence of a recent bottleneck event. In genetic mark–recapture analysis the best model included an effect of sex on both detection and recapture probabilities. Detection of males was highest in November, coinciding with the hangul breeding season, whereas detection of females was highest in December. Our estimate of the hangul population using genetic mark–recapture with bootstrapping was 394 individuals. To our knowledge, this is the first study to use genetic data to estimate the population of the hangul. It will guide future studies of this subspecies and also serve as an impetus for identifying founder animals for captive breeding, and for connecting the population in Dachigam National Park with the other small, isolated populations to ensure the long-term survival of this subspecies.</p>","PeriodicalId":19694,"journal":{"name":"Oryx","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}