Mammifères d’Afrique – African Mammals – Revue du WEB – Décembre 2022

Liens vers l’actualité WEB de la faune africaine – Links to WEB African Wildlife News.

Préservation / Conservation:

Le géant des phosphates OCP soutient la protection du parc du Niokolo Koba.
Restoring Gorongosa National Park after decades of war.
CITES COP19 – a win for wildlife?
Airbus Foundation looks to put satellites to new biodiversity conservation uses.
Population growth, exploitation and climate change: safeguarding Africa’s wildlife into the 22nd century.
Nouvelles des aires protégées d’Afrique DéCEMBRE 2022.

Braconnage / Poaching – Trafic / Traffic – Commerce / Trade – Chasse / Hunting:

Poachers target hippos for giant teeth in place of ivory.
South Africa’s Wildlife Forensic Academy uses a stuffed rhino, lion and giraffe to equip students and rangers with the skills needed to convict wildlife criminals.
RDC : Pourquoi les autorités tolèrent – elles la consommation de la viande de brousse ?
RDC : les rebelles du M23 menacent les gorilles du parc national des Virunga.

Primates:

Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution.
Pocket Identification Guide of the Primates of Northeast Africa.
Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism.
Failure to account for behavioral variability significantly compromises accuracy in indirect population monitoring.
Le primate le plus petit du monde est en train de disparaître.
Mountain gorilla reproduction slows with female transfers.
The Journal of the Africa Section of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group – Volume 16-2022.

Herbivores / Herbivorous:

Botswana investigates elephant deaths near Chobe national park.
Another year of loss – an update on Kruger’s rhino populations.
Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change.
Study reveals that wild African elephants choose paths leading directly to their favorite food.
The least social of the African antelopes: the bushbuck | Candid Animal Cam.

Carnivores / Carnivorous:

The value of individual identification in studies of free-living hyenas and aardwolves.
Trends and biases in African large carnivore population assessments: identifying priorities and opportunities from a systematic review of two decades of research.
What Have Cats Got to do With Climate Change? An Interview with Dr. John Goodrich.

Autres mammifères / Others mammals:

AFRIQUE DE L’EST : le dugong, poussé vers l’extinction par l’homme.
What naked mole-rats can teach us about treating cancer.
The vocal apparatus: Anunderstudied tool toreconstruct theevolutionary history ofecholocation in bats?

Autres nouvelles / Others news:

Population growth, exploitation and climate change: Safeguarding Africa’s wildlife into the 22ND century.
Alors que les banques financent un oléoduc, les militants remettent en question leurs engagements environnementaux.
Tanzanie : La justice prononce des peines capitales contre les assassins d’un défenseur de l’environnement tué en 2017.
L’Afrique pourrait augmenter de plus de 80% ses exportations en gaz liquéfié.
RDC : Deux rangers tués par des hommes armés.