A Critical Assessment of South Africa's Managed Metapopulation Recovery Strategy for African Wild Dogs

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 10-42

  Davies Mostert, Harriet T ^a   Mills, M Gus L ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Absence of large conservation areas and establishment of managed metapopulation small, isolated subpopulations managed as a single population moving wild dogs between areas; Conservation status of African wild dogs particularly challenging to conserve; Effects of habitat loss, consequential prey loss and direct persecution worsening species' plight; Founder animal selection all founder reintroductions in areas where wild dogs were previously extirpated; Managed metapopulation approach successfully applied to mammal species in fragmented habitats, to stave off extinction; PHVA process framework for prioritizing reintroduction sites based on 29 criteria for wild dog population persistence; South Africa's managed metapopulation recovery strategy for African wild dogs; Viable population of African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus in South Africa in Kruger National Park; WAG SA set of principles and guidelines implementation of strategy within context of biodiversity conservation; Wild dog predation within subpopulation boundaries conflicting with managers due to perceived impacts on prey populations (WAG SA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889436409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312034.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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