Der Bartgeier.

223 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbphotos, Grafiken, Karten und Verhaltensskizzen.

Robin Habitat AG. ISBN 3-9522874-0-7.

Eine von der Robin Habitat AG herausgegebene Artmonografie, die in Zusammenarbeit dreier Biologen und zahlreicher weiterer Bartgeierexperten und Fotografen aus aller Welt entstanden ist. Haupttext deutsch; Kapitelzusammenfassungen und Bildlegenden in
englischer, französischer, italienischer und rätoromanischer Sprache. 

In leicht verständlichen Texten wird über die Situation des Bartgeiers weltweit, über seine Ausrottung und Wiederansiedlung und über die ersten Freilandbruten in den Alpen berichtet. Zur Diskussion stehen neben biologischen auch soziologische und historische Erkenntnisse. Spannend und einfühlsam sind die Erlebnisberichte, die uns diesen eindrücklichen Greifvogel näher bringen.

Die hervorragenden Aufnahmen stammen zu einem grossen Teil von Klaus Robin. Ihm gelangen in den Alpen, den Pyrenäen, auf Kreta, in Kenia, im Kaukasus, im Tien-Shan und in der Mongolei atemberaubende Aufnahmen der unterschiedlichsten Landschaften und der faszinierenden Bartgeier. In mehreren Tiergärten und in den beiden Bartgeierzuchtstationen von Haringsee bei Wien und Goldau hat er Verhaltenselemente dokumentiert, die in der Natur kaum zu beobachten sind. Mehrere befreundete Fotografen aus verschiedenen Ländern Europas und Afrikas haben weitere prachtvolle Aufnahmen zur Verfügung gestellt und damit ganz wesentlich zur Gesamterscheinung dieses Buches beigetragen.

Der Generaldirektor des WWF International, Claude Martin - er hat das Wiederansiedlungsprojekt in den frühen Phasen kräftig vorangetrieben -, eröffnet das Buch mit seinem eindrücklichen Vorwort.

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Der Fischotter in Europa: Verbreitung, Bedrohung, Erhaltung.

Selbstverlag der Aktion Fischotterschutz e.V., Forsthaus Oderhaus, D-3424 Andreasberg.

288 S. mit zahlr. Tabellen, Abb., Zeichnungen, Karten (teilw. gefaltet), Fotos auf Tafeln in s/w; 24 x 17cm Aus dem INHALT u.a.: Claus Reuther, Zur Situation des Fischotters in Europa / Entwicklung und derzeige Situation des Fischotterbestandes in Niedersachsen (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) - Michael Stubbe, Die Situation des Fischotters in der DDR. --- Sprache : de, en.

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Die letzten ihrer Art - Grevyzebras in Nordkenia und Äthiopien.

Z. Kölner Zoo 49, Heft 3: 111-123.

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Bukhara Deer within Its Broken Area - Problems for Species Survival.

IUCN-SSC Deer Specialist News 15: 2-4.

Beginn des Artikels:

The endangered subspecies of red deer – bukhara deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus) IUCN Red Data Book - is unique in several ways, differing morphologically both from other European subspecies of red deer, and from the Asian  and  American  subspecies (wapitoides). This subspecies possesses specific physiological adaptations to the arid conditions of Central Asia, most notably to the very limited supply and quality of food resources.

Our investigations had shown its specificity in behavior and communication, which appeared to be consistent across different ecological conditions and densities. One of the most vivid examples of this specificity is a stable creation of true leks, which is characteristic only for this subspecies of red deer. According to the most recent genetic analyses carried out by our colleagues from Great Britain, it is shown – together with Kashmir and Yarkand deer – to be a monophyletic and ancient clade, close to the common ancestry of elaphoids and wapitoides. These tests were conducted on samples of hair collected in different riparian forests of Amudaria.

As the only true deer species in the arid zone of central Asia, it has always been strictly associated with the riparian forests of river valleys.  As the most favorable areas  for  agriculture in the surrounding desert, these valleys suffer greatly from anthropogenic influences. Being both sedentary and rare, the number of animals and the distribution of bukhara deer reduced greatly in the 70s and 80s.  Recently, it has come to be under threat of extinction, as a result of a great decrease in numbers in certain populations, and from the elimination of others.

Neue Hoffnung für den Waldrapp?

Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck 81: 209 – 215

Zusammenfassung:

In 1991 a new method for releasing Waldrapp Ibises Geronticus eremita into its natural habitat was tested in a pilot study  of the Alpenzoo Innsbruck/Tyrol. Our project was based  on  ethological results of long-term  studies  concerning the complex  social system and the tight family bonds of  this colonial bird. Based on the knowledge, that young Waldrapp Ibises have a very close contact with their parents usually up to the next breeding season a group of chicks was handreared  by two human  foster  parents to produce parent imprinting. Being guided by their foster parents up to their independence the birds got familiar  with the habitat, learned  foraging and avoiding dangerous situations whilst enjoying permanent protection. At the end of the project the ability of the birds to orientate, their feeding behaviour, choice of food and use of habitat was nearly identical to that of Waldrapp Ibises in the wild. The successful pilot study is considered to be the basis for a releasing program in a protected area of southern Spain.

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Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan - Wild Cats.

IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. IUCN Gland. 382 pp. ISBN-2-8317-0045-0.

Abstract:

The publication resents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild. It provides a thorough review of major issues in cat conservation such as habitat loss and management of big cats in livestock areas; field and laboratory research; international trade; the role of zoos; and reintroduction. High priority are identified to further the cause of cat conservation.

Introduction:

The Cat Action Plan Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan consists of a review and analysis of information relevant to the conservation of wild cats, and a priority action program.

Part I provides summaries of the biology, ecology, distribution, and conservation status of each cat species. These Species Accounts are organized under five geopolitical regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and southwest Asia, Tropical Asia, Eurasia, and the Americas.

Part II examines the major issues pertinent to the conservation of all cats: habitat loss, management of big cats near people, research, trade, cats in captivity, and reintroduction. Parts I and II together form a comprehensive reference for people interested in cats and their conservation. The information contained within is a demonstration of the work of cat specialists, and it is hoped that the rich and multi-faceted picture of cats and their conservation which emerges will stimulate more people to become active on behalf of the wild cats. Wild Cats is more, however, than an authoritative reference work. It is a strategic planning document which prescribes methods for making cat conservation more effective. These principles of cat conservation, which can be drawn from the text, prioritize conservation action on both international and regional levels. The principles also serve as a framework to aid local authorities in planning their own cat conservation priorities.

Part III, the Action Plan itself, presents 105 projects that build on the data and recommendations presented previously, and focus the general principles of cat conservation. Drawn up by the Cat Specialist Group, they concentrate on the most vulnerable species and are priorities for cat conservation in the 1990s. Implementation of these projects forms the mission of the Cat Specialist Group over the coming decade. If these projects realize their objectives, the family Felidae should enter the 21st century in good shape. The priority projects listed in the Action Plan, for the most part, are in need of (1) financial support and (2) researchers and others to work on them. Those interested in funding, carrying out, or helping with any of these projects should contact the Vice Chairman, Projects for details: Kristin Nowell, 2520-4,41st St. NW, Washington DC 20007, U.S.A.

An Executive Summary of Wild Cats prefaces Part I. In addition, the “Major Issues” chapters of Part II end in short summary sections which outline key points. A regional index to species vulnerability, which generally indicates species conservation priority, prefaces each regional chapter in Part I, the Species Accounts. The introduction to the Species Accounts explains how species vulnerability is ranked. Part III, the Action Plan, is organized according to the topics examined in Part II and the species order of Part I.

The Cat Specialist Group
The IUCNKSC Cat Specialist Group is the world’s premier body of scientific and practical expertise on wild cats and their conservation. Over 160 members (see Appendix 5) represent 50 countries and include field biologists, wildlife managers, government officials, leaders of nongovernmental organizations which focus on cat conservation, and other specialists from diverse but interrelated fields including taxonomy, genetics, environmental law, wildlife trade and use, conservation education and wildlife photography, small population biology and captive breeding, and wildlife veterinary medicine. These people serve as Cat Specialist Group members in their personal capacities, but bring with them the experience and the knowledge gained in their professional careers. They volunteer the best of their thinking, and also, in many cases, their time and services, for cat conservation. This document represents the Group’s first major collective effort to review what has been accomplished in the past, and to prepare a strategic plan for future action.

Through its members, the Cat Specialist Group maintains a substantial collective library. The Group plans to consolidate and disseminate this resource by establishing a Cat Conservation Data Center (see priority project in Part III). The Chairman publishes a biannual newsletter, Cat News, which is circulated to members of the group. It is available to anyone else who makes an annual donation to a special fund in the name of “Friends of the Cat Group.”

For more information about the Cat Specialist Group, contact: Peter Jackson, Chairman, IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, Route des Macherettes, 1172 Bougy-Villars, Switzerland, Tel + Fax: +41 (21) 808 6012, email: peterjackson@gn.apc.org or c/o the Species Survival Commission, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, 1196 Gland, Switzerland, Tel: +41 (22) 999 0001, Fax: +41 (22) 999 0015, email: mgd@hq.iucn.ch (attn jackson).

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Status and Action Plan for the African Wild Ass. In: MOEHLMANN, P.D. (ed.,2002) Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Equids: Zebras, Asses and Horses.

IUCN/SSC Equid Specialist Group. IUCN – The World Conservation Union. ISBN 2-8317-0647-5

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From bottleneck to metapopulation: recovery of the tule elk in California.

In McCULLOUGH, D. R. , ed. Metapopulations and wildlife conservaton: 375-410.
Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Inhalt des Bandes:

Cheetahs in Afghanistan.

Cat News 49: 18. IUCN Cat Specialist Group. ISSN 1027-2992.

 Abstract:

The Asiatic cheetah Acinonyx jubatus venaticus (Schreber 1776) once ranged from the Arabian Peninsula to India. Today not more than 100 cheetahs seem to have survived in the deserts of Iran (Farhadinia 2004). In Afghanistan the cheetah is considered to have been extinct since the 1950s.

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Antelopes - Global Survey and Regional Action Plans, Part 4: North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

260 Seiten. Verbreitungskarten.

IUCN, Gland. ISBN 2-8317-0594-0.

Vorwort:

The IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group was created in 1978 and currently has more than 100 members based in over 40 countries .A key objective of the group is to monitor the conservation status of all antelope species  .The publication of Part 4 of Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional
Action Plans is an important and eagerly awaited milestone in achieving this objective .Following on from Parts 1 to 3, which dealt with the antelopes of sub-Saharan Africa, Part 4 completes the Antelope Specialist Group’s efforts to summarise  current  knowledge  of  the  status  of  each  antelope
species in all of its range states, and to develop Regional Action Plans for antelope conservation.

The  completion  of  Part  4  is  a  tribute  to  the  unstinting efforts and persistence of the compilers. They have produced a comprehensive work, which is a major addition to our knowledge of antelopes and will be of lasting value to antelope conservation   .As the compiler of Parts 1 to 3 of
Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans, I am uniquely placed to understand the magnitude of the compilers’  task. This  is  exacerbated  by  the  relatively  large number of species and range states that are covered by the Antelope Specialist Group. I warmly congratulate David Mallon and Steven Kingswood on their successful completion of this mammoth undertaking.

With almost 100 species globally, antelopes achieve an exceptionally high diversity compared to most other groups of  medium  to  large-sized  mammals . The  living  antelope species represent the continuation of a major and relatively recent evolutionary heritage and are among the most successful groups of large herbivores that have ever existed on Earth  .They  are  also  important  flagship  species  for  the conservation of natural environments .Flourishing antelope populations   are   key   indicators   of   healthy   grasslands, woodlands, forests, and deserts in many parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Hence, the conservation of antelopes  is  a  vital  component  of  biodiversity  conservation throughout these regions  .In addition, the beauty and grace of antelopes give them high aesthetic value. They are also an important natural resource in economic terms, through consumptive uses such as hunting for trophies, meat, and skins,  and  non-consumptive  uses  such  as  game-viewing tourism.

Threats to the survival of antelopes arise fundamentally from the growth of human and domestic livestock populations, which result in increasing degradation and destruction of natural habitats and excessive offtake by hunting for meat and  skins. Unfortunately,  these  processes  are  even  more advanced  in  much  of  the  region  covered  by  Part  4  of Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans than in sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, antelope populations have  been  severely  depleted  or  exterminated  over  large parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia .Nevertheless, viable and sometimes substantial remnants of most of the region’s antelope species survive.

Emphasis  must  now  shift  to  the  implementation  of  the conservation  priorities  identified  in  the  Regional  Action Plan, within the context of sustainable development and the conservation of biological diversity .Co-ordinated efforts by government  and  non-government  agencies  and  conservation organisations will be essential to implement the protection  and  management  regimes  which  are  required  to assure the long-term survival of representative examples of this   spectacular   group   of   mammals   and   their   natural habitats.

Rod East
Co-Chair, Antelope Specialist Group

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