This studies evaluates which design of artificial nest box is the least accessible for predators of the tamarin and still most likely to be accepted as a suitable sleeping site for the black lion tamarin in the wild.

Momenteel is het wildbeheer vanuit de WBE’s in Nederland niet altijd voldoende professioneel, consistent of gebaseerd op recente wetenschappelijke kennis. Een planmatiger aanpak van het wildbeheer zou deze problemen op kunnen lossen. De vraag die hieruit voortvloeit is: Hoe kan het faunabeheer planmatiger …

In dit rapport is een ontwerpadvies opgesteld voor faunapassages in De Ronde Venen. De Ronde Venen is een gemeente in provincie Utrecht die zich tussen de Natura 2000-gebieden Botshol, De Nieuwkoopse Plassen & De Haeck, en de Oostelijke Vechtplassen bevindt. Meer specifiek zoomt het advies in op Marickenland …

The conservation status of the trumpeter species varies from least concern to critically endangered according to the IUCN since 2014. The conservation statuses are based on future deforestation in the Amazon basin and on the fact that the species is vulnerable to being hunted. It is concluded that the …

Cooperative population management is essential for the long-term viability of animal populations held in zoos and aquaria. In several regions, zoos are working together on population management by cooperative breeding programmes. Since most of these managed populations are not viable, it is suggested …

Every year more than 140 million visitors visit EAZA member zoos. To promote conservation to this enormous public of zoo visitors, EAZA launches annual conservation campaigns. Since the start of EAZA’s first campaign in 2000 they have been running 10 campaigns with a variety of issues that affect certain …

Nowadays almost half of the world’s population of freshwater turtles and tortoises are threatened with extinction in the wild. Particularly in Asia the population decline is severe and referred to as the “Asian Turtle Crisis”. Turtles are thought to be keystone species and therefore their disappearance …

The raccoon dog was introduced in Russia and has been moving west ever since. Currently there are populations in: Finland, Poland, Germany and the Baltic countries. There are sightings in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. There is a high possibility that the raccoon dog will settle in the Netherlands. Raccoon …

The Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) is a vulnerable species in Northern Australia. Literature research on the cassowary population in Mission Beach, Queensland, revealed the vulnerability by identifying various threats endangering the cassowaries. Those threats were assessed by various …

Kust en Zee (Dutch part of EUCC (Coastal and Marine Union in Europe)) wants to introduce pingers to Chinese fishermen to reduce cetacean bycatch in Chinese fishery. But it is not the best time to introduce pingers to Chinese fishermen at this moment, due to that there is lack of a similar background …