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| Lorica, R.P.; Oliver, W.L.R. | |
| Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Programme - Terminal Report - Phase One July 2005-December 2006 | |
| 2007 Full Book | |
This report summarises the findings, conclusions and recommendations arising from the first phase of this project, which included: compilation and review of all available data re. recent and current known range and habitat utilisation, including sugar cane farms; completion of a distribution-wide ethnobiological survey; a detailed assessment of recent captive management records and current known husbandry requirements; a summary of various local awareness raising activities and anti-poaching campaigns; and a review of current known conservation status and likely future conservation management requirements. Recommendations arising from this project also constitute the basis for the proposed future activities, namely: formulation and implementation of a 'conservation management plan' to include: various applied field research and systematic studies; development of new protected areas (private and municipal reserves); implementation of habitat protection and restoration activities in other selected areas; development of a properly structured conservation breeding and reintroduction programme, based on the rescue and rearing of wild-born kittens which are routinely orphaned during local sugar-cane harvesting operations; networking and awareness raising, especially amongst local hunters and farmers to reduce illegal hunting, trade and/or active persecution of these animals; and developing institutional capacities of existing local partner agencies, including personnel training and provision of relevant research and management equipment and other infrastructure and materials.The Visayan leopard cat or '_mara_l' (_Prionailurus bengalensis rabori_) is one of the world's smallest, most attractively marked and most threatened of all wild felines. Although little is yet known about overall population sizes, there is no doubt that these animals have already been extirpated over at least 95% of their former range and now survive only in the last few remnant forest patches on 3 (possibly 4) islands in the West Visayas (central Philippines), though none of these forest patches (which total less than 180,000 ha) is adequately protected at present. |
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