The Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program and Grumeti Fund started a search for the ‘Critically Endangered’ Southern patas monkey in the Serengeti Ecosystem. Have you seen this monkey? Do you want to know more about this unique primate? Click here!
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The Subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis (J. E. Gray, 1872) is a widespread species that occurs in sub-Antarctic waters, north of the Antarctic Polar Front/Antarctic Convergence, from the southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Indian Ocean eastwards to the southwestern Pacific Ocean. While there have been many vagrant A. tropicalis in South Africa, there is little knowledge of their occurrence on the east coast of Africa to the north of South Africa. In this paper we review what is known concerning the occurrence of A. tropicalis along the coast of East Africa (i.e., Kenya and Tanzania), and discuss two records of vagrant A. tropicalis for Kenya. This is a new superfamily (Pinnipedia), family (Otariidae), genus (Arctocephalus), and species of large carnivorous mammal for the country.
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Wildsolutions.nl now hosts the results of the first systematic work to document the biological diversity represented in Uganda’s major forests, the Biodiversity Report Series (1996). These reports describe fieldwork carried out by the Uganda Forest Department during 1991-1995, aimed at listing the trees and scrubs, birds, butterflies, moths, and small mammals of the country’s 65 most important forests for the conservation of biodiversity. The purpose of this work is to provide data on the biological value of each forest and establish priorities for the designation of Nature Reserves and other conservation areas.
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Uganda’s Mount Nyeri demarks both the northern limit of Otzi East Central Forest Reserve and the border with South Sudan. Photograph by Yvonne de Jong & Tom Butynski.
Abstract: The ‘Endangered’ Prigogine’s Angola colobus Colobus angolensis prigoginei is endemic to the Kabobo Massif along the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As the validity of C. a. prigoginei has been disputed, we compared the holotype and first photographs of a live individual against three paratypes of Cordier’s Angola colobus Colobus angolensis cordieri.
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Report to Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations
This survey was kindly made possible by the inheritance of Michael Amend
March 2024
Summary:
Northeast Kenya is the most poorly known region in eastern Africa as concerns the taxonomy, distribution, abundance, threats, and conservation status of its larger mammals. Nonetheless, this region has a high number of threatened genera and species. Among the larger mammals, 15 species of antelope are known to occur. Diurnal surveys, nocturnal surveys, and camera trap surveys were conducted to cover as much of northeast Kenya (~130,000 km²) as possible in four fieldtrips (total of 48 days, total distance driven 7,163 km). The objectives of the Northeast Kenya Antelope Survey were to: (1) considerably improve our understanding of the taxonomic status, distribution, relative abundance, and threats to the region’s species of antelope; (2) contribute to the reassessments of their IUCN Red List degree of threat status; (3) provide practical, prioritized, recommendations for ameliorating the threats; and (4) bring local, national, and international attention to the unique biodiversity of northeast Kenya, using antelopes as a flagship group.
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