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Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

Cell Genomics, 2021
Summary: The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago, only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island population.
Nicolas Dussex, Tom van der Valk, Hernán E. Morales, Christopher W. Wheat, David Díez-del-Molino, Johanna von Seth, Yasmin Foster, Verena E. Kutschera, Katerina Guschanski, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy, Jonas Korlach, Kerstin Howe, William Chow, Sarah Pelan, Joanna D. Mendes Damas, Harris A. Lewin, Alex R. Hastie, Giulio Formenti, Olivier Fedrigo, Joseph Guhlin, Thomas W.R. Harrop, Marissa F. Le Lec, Peter K. Dearden, Leanne Haggerty, Fergal J. Martin, Vamsi Kodali, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, David Iorns, Michael Knapp, Neil J. Gemmell, Fiona Robertson, Ron Moorhouse, Andrew Digby, Daryl Eason, Deidre Vercoe, Jason Howard, Erich D. Jarvis, Bruce C. Robertson, Love Dalén   +39 more
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Tourism and the conservation of critically endangered frogs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Protected areas are critical for the conservation of many threatened species. Despite this, many protected areas are acutely underfunded, which reduces their effectiveness significantly.
Clare Morrison, Clay Simpkins, J Guy Castley, Ralf C Buckley   +3 more
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Rescue of the traditional song culture of a critically endangered songbird [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Abstract Animal cultures are learned behaviours that are maintained in populations through social learning and conformity. Global reductions in species’ populations can lead to the loss of animal cultures, which may further reduce individual fitness. The Critically Endangered regent honeyeater (
Appleby, Daniel, Langmore, Naomi E., Pitcher, Ben, Tripovich, Joy, Matkovics, Richard, Heinsohn, Robert, Crates, Ross   +6 more
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Tadpole of the Critically Endangered Sterling’s Toothed Toad (Oreolalax sterlingae)

Zootaxa, 2017
Sterling’s Toothed Toad, Oreolalax sterlingae (Nguyen et al. 2013), was described from near the summit of the highest peak in Vietnam, Mount Fansipan, Lao Cai Province. The species is the only member of the genus in Vietnam and is presently known from a single stream system on Mount Fansipan at about 2800 m elevation.
Rowley, Jodi J. L., Tapley, Benjamin, Chung, Nguyen Thanh, Altig, Ronald   +3 more
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Close-kin mark-recapture informs critically endangered terrestrial mammal status [PDF]

, 2023
Reliable information on population size is fundamental to the management of threatened species. For wild species, mark-recapture methods are a cornerstone of abundance estimation. Here, we show the first application of the close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR)
Feutry, P, Rose, K, Armstrong, KN, Phalen, DN, Baylis, SM, Todd, CM, Lloyd-Jones, LR, Macgregor, NA, Lawrence, E, Peters, I, Bravington, MV, Dorrestein, A, Welbergen, JA, Hall, J, et al., Martin, JM   +15 more
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The Critically Endangered western chimpanzee declines by 80% [PDF]

American Journal of Primatology, 2017
African large mammals are under extreme pressure from unsustainable hunting and habitat loss. Certain traits make large mammals particularly vulnerable. These include late age at first reproduction, long inter‐birth intervals, and low population density. Great apes are a prime example of such vulnerability, exhibiting all of these traits.
Hjalmar S. Kühl, Tenekwetche Sop, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Roger Mundry, David Brugière, Genevieve Campbell, Heather Cohen, Emmanuel Danquah, Laura Ginn, Ilka Herbinger, Sorrel Jones, Jessica Junker, Rebecca Kormos, Celestin Y. Kouakou, Paul K. N'Goran, Emma Normand, Kathryn Shutt‐Phillips, Alexander Tickle, Elleni Vendras, Adam Welsh, Erin G. Wessling, Christophe Boesch   +21 more
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Tourism revenue as a conservation tool for threatened birds in protected areas. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Many bird populations worldwide are at risk of extinction, and rely heavily on protected area networks for their continued conservation. Tourism to these areas contributes to conservation by generating revenue for management.
Rochelle Steven, J Guy Castley, Ralf Buckley   +2 more
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State of knowledge and conservation of endangered and critically endangered lagomorphs worldwide [PDF]

Therya, 2015
Introduction:  Lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas) are widely distributed in every continent of the world, except Antarctica. They include 91 species: 31 rabbits of the genera  Brachylagus , Bunolagus ,  Caprolagus , Nesolagus ,  Pentalagus , Poelagus ,  Prolagus , Pronolagus , Romerolagus,  and Sylvilagus ; 32 hares of the genus  Lepus ...
Consuelo Lorenzo, Tamara M. Rioja-Paradela, Arturo Carrillo-Reyes   +2 more
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Population Genomics of the Critically Endangered Brazilian Merganser

Animals, 2023
The Brazilian merganser (Mergus octosetaceus) is one of the most endangered bird species in South America and comprises less than 250 mature individuals in wild environments. This is a species extremely sensitive to environmental disturbances and restricted to a few “pristine” freshwater habitats in Brazil, and it has been classified as Critically ...
Davidson P. Campos, Henry Paul Granger-Neto, José E. Santos Júnior, Pierre Faux, Fabrício R. Santos   +4 more
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Facultative parthenogenesis in a critically endangered wild vertebrate [PDF]

Current Biology, 2015
Facultative parthenogenesis - the ability of sexually reproducing species to sometimes produce offspring asexually - is known from a wide range of ordinarily sexually reproducing vertebrates in captivity, including some birds, reptiles and sharks [1-3].
Fields, Andrew T., Feldheim, Kevin A., Poulakis, Gregg R., Chapman, Demian D.   +3 more
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