Mammifères d’Afrique – African Mammals – Revue du WEB – Mars 2023

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

Préservation / Conservation:

A passage to India – how the journey of Southern Africa’s cheetah divided the experts.
Private rhino – the importance of private sector rhino conservation.
Comment le Maroc protège ses ongulés sauvages menacés d’extinction.
Nigerian senate approves establishment of 10 new national parks.
L’Ouganda alourdit expressément les sanctions contre les infractions et crimes environnementaux.
Trans-Boundary Heritage Site Planned By Nigeria And Cameroon To Safeguard Endangered Species.
BÉNIN : la Banque mondiale finance 30 M$ pour l’aménagement des forêts classées.

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

Assessing trophy hunting in South Africa by comparing hunting and exporting databases.
Trophy Hunting Contributes to The Plight Of Threatened African Elephants And Could Soon Drive Them Extinct.
The bushmeat trade in northern Ghana: market dynamics, drivers of trade and implications for conservation.
Thai Poaching Kingpin Sentenced to Prison.
Britain’s proposed ban on big game trophies is ‘arrogant’ and five African nations say the plan smacks of ‘colonialism’.
Pangolin hunting and trafficking in the forest–savannah transition area of Cameroon.

 Primates:

Et si la clé des origines du langage se trouvait dans le cerveau des singes ?
Sint Maarten Plans to Kill Entire Population of Monkeys.
Context-dependent alarm responses in wild vervet monkeys.
DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria.
Les bonobos de RDC en danger d’extinction font face à une nouvelle menace : le paludisme.

Herbivores / Herbivorous:

Rapid dung removal by beetles suggests higher duiker densities in Central African rainforests.
Phenotypical characterization of African savannah and forest elephants, with special emphasis on hybrids: the case of Kibale National Park, Uganda.
Gazelle–livestock interactions and impact of water resource development in the Ouadi Rimé– Ouadi Achim Reserve, Chad.
Pioneering conflict-avoidance study asks elephants what works for them.
Les éléphants favorisent le développement des arbres géants, augmentant ainsi les réserves de carbone dans les forêts d’Afrique.
Five years since the death of Sudan, new film highlights hope for rhinos.
Patterns and predictors of ungulate space use across an isolated Miombo woodland reserve.
Anthropogenically driven spatial niche partitioning in a large herbivore assemblage.

Carnivores / Carnivorous:

Florence and her cubs give hope that west African lion can come roaring back.
Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population.
Lions Bring Traffic To A Halt At Kruger National Park.
First record of the leopard Panthera pardus in Bui National Park, Ghana.

Autres mammifères / Others mammals:

Côte d’Ivoire : Un éleveur atypique veut sauver l’aulacode.

Autres nouvelles / Others news:

Colombia tries a new solution for Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos.
Drivers of predator-proof boma disrepair in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya.
Wind project near S.African elephant park riles activists.