CAS AN 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Umbrella Species, International Union For Conservation Of Nature, Ecotourism
15 Mar 2017
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Developing countries: reliance on natural resources (e. g. logging & mining, subsistence agr, hunting, poverty & food shortages, human pop. growth. Major threats to primates: habitat destruction & degradation, logging, farming/slash-burn agr, road building (fragmentation, climate change, hunting (increased) biggest threat to primates, bushmeat wild game (rising demand) leads to disease transmission (e. g hiv & Ebola: traditional medicines (110 primate species used in traditional medicine (23 endangered; 14 critical, live capture, illegal pet trade, biomedical research, zoos, incr. by human pop. growth. Susceptibility of primates: large body, long life histories & slow reproductive rates, sensitive to habitat disturbance. Poaching (killing & trade: 2/3 + die in transit, illegal trade: -10 billion per year, wild species depleted by pet trade, exotic plants often illegally gathered. Consequences (e. g. habitat fragmentation: shifting home ranges, lethal clashes w/ other conspecifics, low fertility, water & food availability, forests never restored to original condition.
