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| Friedmann, Y.; Traylor-Holzer, K. | |
| Leopard (_Panthera pardus_) case study | |
| 2008 Full Book | |
In the PHVA workshop, only the South African population of Leopards was assessed. The distribution of Leopards in South Africa is widespread across a variety of geographic locations, habitats and management units. Leopard distribution information was provided by Gus Mills at the PHVA based upon the Red Data Book of the Mammals of South Africa (Friedmann and Daly, 2004). Subsequent group discussion among the participants identified ten core areas, which were modelled as separate populations with varying levels of connectivity among these populations and with Leopard populations in adjacent countries. In South Africa, the Leopard range has been substantially reduced by agricultural development, hunting and human population encroachment in the interior, and today it is found only in the remote mountainous regions of the Western Cape, the bushveld wildlife areas of the North West Province, Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, and the semi-desert areas of the Northern Cape bordering on Botswana. There are possibly still small, isolated populations of Leopard in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg and the forest of the Eastern Cape (Mills and Hes, 1997). The Leopard population size in South Africa is unknown, but it has however, become apparent that Leopard populations are smaller and more fragmented than previously appreciated. |
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