Landscapes for the conservation of the Giant Ibis in Cambodia

柬埔寨巨鹮景观保护

• 批准号: 2434871
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2434871
• 关键词: Landscapes; conservation; Giant; Ibis; Cambodia

The Giant Ibis is a critically endangered species of bird, now restricted to a small population scattered across the savannahs of northern Cambodia. Through a community conservation programme, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia protect around 20% of the nesting population, most nests successfully raising young each year but after a decade of such work, there is no sign of a population recovery yet. The savannahs occupied by the ibis have seen landscape-scale changes with loss of large herbivores altering the landscape in a variety of ways that may affect ibis recruitment, but the use of the landscape by young ibis is poorly known. WCS intend to implement landscape management activities to boost ibis populations and this project will use GPS tracking technology to assess the success of these works and assist in developing new conservation plans.OBJECTIVES:(1) To identify the landscape features used by young ibis through GPS tagging.(2) To evaluate the success of interventions designed to simulate herbivore activity at waterholes and across the landscape(3) To test the hypothesis that loss of large herbivores is preventing ibis recovery(4) To develop an updated conservation action plan for Giant Ibis

大朱鹭是一种极度濒危的鸟类，现在仅限于分布在柬埔寨北方大草原上的一小部分。通过社区保护计划，柬埔寨野生动物保护协会（WCS）保护了大约20%的筑巢人口，大多数巢穴每年都能成功地养育幼崽，但经过十年的工作，还没有人口恢复的迹象。被朱鹭占据的稀树草原发生了巨大的变化，大型食草动物的减少以各种方式改变了景观，这可能会影响朱鹭的招募，但朱鹭对景观的利用却鲜为人知。WCS计划实施景观管理活动以增加朱鹭的数量，该项目将使用GPS跟踪技术来评估这些工作的成功程度，并协助制定新的保护计划。(2)评估旨在模拟水洞和景观中食草动物活动的干预措施的成功性（3）验证大型食草动物的损失阻碍朱鹭恢复的假设（4）制定最新的朱鹭保护行动计划