Lack of conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk
| Autor: | Stuart Nixon, David Tiku Okon, Rebecca Chancellor, Chie Hashimoto, Ymke Warren, Luis Arranz, Geneviève Campbell, Takeshi Furuichi, Noëlle F. Kümpel, Christophe Boesch, Phil Marshall, Inaoyom Imong, Leonidas Nziguyimpa, Andrew J. Plumptre, Zacharie Nzooh-Dogmo, Hjalmar Kuehl, Ilka Herbinger, Fidèle Amsini, Fiona Maisels, Bas Huijbregts, Sylvain Gatti, Michael Abedi-Lartey, Nsengiyunva Barakabuye, Andrea Ghiurghi, Ogunjemite Babafemi, Jef Dupain, Angelique Todd, Sandra Tranquilli, Aaron S. Rundus, Thurston C. Hicks, John Hart, Augustus Asamoah, Elisabeth Greengrass, Tim R.B. Davenport, Christina Ellis, Jacqueline Sunderland-Groves, Emmanuelle Normand, Andrew Dunn, Gilles Etoga, Lars H. Holbech, Roger Mundry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Ecology
business.industry Environmental resource management Law enforcement Endangered species Natural resource Geography Evidence-based conservation Resource management Risk assessment business Environmental planning Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Tourism Nature and Landscape Conservation Wildlife conservation |
| Zdroj: | Conservation Letters. 5:48-55 |
| ISSN: | 1755-263X |
| Popis: | A network of resource management areas (RMAs) exists across tropical Africa to protect natural resources. However, many are poorly managed and weakly protected. We evaluated how the lack of conservation effort influences the extinction risk of African great apes. We compiled information on presence/absence of primary (law enforcement guards) and secondary (tourism, research) conservation activities and nongovernmental conservation organizations (NGOs) support for 109 RMAs over the last 20 years. Along with these data, we collected environmental and anthropogenic variables, including recent records of ape presence/absence for all RMAs. As expected, law enforcement as a primary activity was the best predictor of ape survival rather than tourism or research as secondary activities. Furthermore, long-term NGO support had a significant positive influence on ape persistence. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of evaluating the relative importance of different conservation activities, an important step towards more evidence-based approaches in ape conservation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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