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Conservation Evidence: Assessing translocations and reintroductions of terrestrial carnivores
Abstract
Around the world terrestrial carnivores are facing rapid declines in population size.
Larger species are especially vulnerable to declines as they typically have solitary
social structures, low population densities and low fecundity. In order to prevent
extinctions effective conservation practices need to be established. Conservation
Evidence, a project begun at Cambridge University, is designed to gather quantitative
scientific evidence for various conservation interventions into a succinct and user-friendly
program that is freely accessible to the public. This report, focused on translocations
and reintroductions of felids, represents a portion of the forthcoming synopsis on
terrestrial carnivores. This project also shows that the ‘success’ of translocations
and reintroductions is difficult to define. An intervention is typically viewed as
‘successful’ if individuals establish home ranges or reproduce, however there is no
standard threshold value.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9627Citation
Bennett, Laura (2015). Conservation Evidence: Assessing translocations and reintroductions of terrestrial
carnivores. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9627.Collections
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