Title
Setting Conservation and Research Priorities for Larger African Carnivores
Author(s)
Ray, J.C., L. Hunter & J. Zigouris
Published
2005
Abstract
Large carnivores present enormous challenges to conservation. The expansive wild areas that are often needed to conserve intact carnivore communities are becoming increasingly scarce on the African continent. As human pressure for natural resources mounts, combined with scarce resources spread over a large land area, effective conservation in Africa calls for a rigorous approach to setting priorities, both for the conservation of carnivores and of biodiversity overall. This report incorporates the strengths of several previously published works that have evaluated objective sets of criteria for evaluating species, community, and geographic conservation priorities. Specifically, this exercise evaluates the 20 largest species of African carnivores from five families (Canidae, Felidae, Hyaenidae, Mustelidae and Viverridae), in order to ascertain which taxa or regions are inherently vulnerable and/or require further investigation and conservation action.
Keywords
conservation; African carnivores
Full Citation
Ray, J.C., L. Hunter & J. Zigouris. 2005. Setting Conservation and Research Priorities for Larger African Carnivores. Working Paper No. 24, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY.
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