Publications by authors named "Christine Breitenmoser"
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- Establishing protected areas (PAs) is crucial for protecting biodiversity, but it's not enough for many wide-ranging species like the cheetah, which faces significant survival challenges.
- The global cheetah population is only about 7,100 individuals, primarily located outside PAs, where they encounter various threats.
- To effectively conserve species like the cheetah, there needs to be a shift in conservation strategies towards holistic approaches that encourage coexistence and protection across larger landscapes, rather than relying solely on PAs.
Background: The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is one of the world's least known, highly threatened felids with a distribution restricted to tropical lowland rainforests in Peninsular Thailand/Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. Throughout its geographic range large-scale anthropogenic transformation processes, including the pollution of fresh-water river systems and landscape fragmentation, raise concerns regarding its conservation status. Despite an increasing number of camera-trapping field surveys for carnivores in South-East Asia during the past two decades, few of these studies recorded the flat-headed cat.
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