Habitat fragmentation is one of the greatest threats to large carnivores’ across the world. Crisscrossing roads that cuts up habitat is a big nuisance and throws up lot of management challenges Now a team of Scientists from Germany and Mexico have developed a new statistical model that identifies where big cats are most likely to cross busy roads that passes through their Habitat.
Years of data collected from GPS and radio-telemetry collars fitted to jaguars in Central America were used to come up with the new tool.
The new model is expected to give a big boost to carnivore conservation. The field trials have been highly satisfactory.
Details appear in the latest issue of journal Animal Conservation.
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