#vie_sauvage

Projet Vercors Vie Sauvage - ASPAS : Association pour la Protection des Animaux Sauvages
▻https://www.aspas-nature.org/reserves-vie-sauvage/vercors-vie-sauvage

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Vercors Vie Sauvage

Le site retenu pour le projet Vercors Vie Sauvage est isolé au fond d’un vallon dans le massif du Vercors, sans agriculture intensive à proximité. Par sa taille, il constitue un véritable havre de paix pour notre biodiversité épuisée : 490 hectares de forêt ancienne très diversifiée avec de nombreuses essences d’arbres et d’arbustes typiques de l’étage montagnard, dont plusieurs arbres remarquables. Quelques prairies calcicoles accueillent orchidées et papillons à foison, et les falaises toutes proches font le bonheur des rapaces. Plusieurs sources et une rivière qui s’égaille en petits rus alimentent mares et étangs où s’abreuvent une faune sauvage variée et facilement observable.

Cerfs, loups, aigles, gypaète, vautours fauve et moine, sangliers, renards, mustélidés, des libellules peu communes, et une foule d’insectes devenus rares ailleurs font dès à présent de ce lieu un site d’observation exceptionnel pour scientifiques, curieux et photographes amoureux de la nature.

▻https://www.aspas-nature.org/wp-content/uploads/Vercors-Vie-Sauvage-ASPAS.pdf

LE PORTEUR DE PROJET :L’ASPAS, UNE ONG HORS NORMESGÉNÉTIQUEMENT INDÉPENDANTEDès sa création, en 1983, l’ASPAS a fait un choix exceptionnel parmi les ONG françaises de défense de la nature : ne jamais recevoir les moindres fonds de l’État. Une contrainte lourde, compensée par un investissement total de ses fondateurs dont la passion motive plus que jamais les adhérents d’aujourd’hui. L’ASPAS ne rend donc de comptes qu’à ses quelques 10 000 adhérents et ses donateurs. Son fonctionnement collégial renforce encore sa stabilité.

#vie_sauvage #biodiversité #protection_des_animaux

With poaching curtailed, a new menace to Nepal’s wildlife
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/with-poaching-curtailed-a-new-menace-to-nepals-wildlife

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Among the pathogens in Chitwan’s “soup kitchen” are the closely related species within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Scientists have long recognized the menace posed by M. tuberculosis, the typical human pathogen infecting both Asian elephants and 3 million people in South Asia.

The Chitwan rhino casualty represented a newly recognized pathogen, M. orygis, originally diagnosed in captive Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), and more recently identified in other antelope species, humans, spotted deer (Axis axis), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and domestic cattle. While the original host of M. orygis in Chitwan remains at large, NTNC veterinarian Amir Sadaula said that the organization is currently investigating domestic cattle in the buffer zone as a potential reservoir.

#Népal #infections #vie_sauvage #animaux_domestiques

Wild Sanctuary
▻http://www.wildsanctuary.com/#audio-archive-link

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The Wild Sanctuary Audio Archive represents a vast and important collection of whole-habitat field recordings and precise metadata dating from the late 1960s. This unique bioacoustic resource contains marine and terrestrial soundscapes representing the voices of living organisms from larvae to large mammals and the numerous tropical, temperate and Arctic biomes from which they come. The catalog currently contains over 4,500 hours of wild soundscapes and in excess of 15,000 identified life forms.

Fully half of the natural soundscapes in this rare set are from habitats that no longer exist, are radically altered because of human endeavor, or have gone altogether silent.

#soundscape #field_recording #ecologie #vie_sauvage #Bernie_Krause #sanctuaire

Elephant killings in Mozambique happening on ‘industrialised’ scale | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/elephant-killings-industrialised-scale-illegal-ivory-trade

Elephant poaching is happening on an unprecedented and “industrialised” scale in Mozambique, environmentalists have warned, after 22 of the animals were killed for their tusks in the first two weeks of September.

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said organised crime syndicates are slaughtering between 1,500 and 1,800 elephants a year in the southern African country, feeding demand for ivory in the far east. There are fears that Mozambique’s elephant herds could be extinct within a decade.

The crisis, described by the WCS as a “national disaster”, was discussed during a two-day meeting of Mozambican officials, law enforcement agents and diplomats in the capital, Maputo.

Carlos Pareira, an adviser to the New York-based WCS, told the seminar of the worsening situation in Niassa, the country’s biggest game reserve, where “in the first two weeks of September alone we counted 22 elephants that had been killed.”

The Niassa reserve, co-managed by the WCS with the Mozambican authorities, is double the size of South Africa’s popular Kruger national park. Pareira added: “The killing of elephants in the north of Mozambique … is reaching proportions never seen before. The killing of elephants is being industrialised.”

Poachers use automatic weapons and high-calibre hunting rifles to kill the animals, the meeting heard. In the northern Tete province, they poison drinking water sources, killing not only elephants, while spikes concealed in the bush have also been used to wound animals in the coastal Querimbas reserve, causing them slow and agonising deaths from gangrene.

#éléphant #braconnage #Ivoire #trafic #carnage