Journal
CONSERVATION LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12574
Keywords
Amur leopard; camera traps; carnivore; China; mark-recapture; monitoring; Panthera pardus orientalis; Russia; transboundary conservation
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- ANO Far Eastern Leopards
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31200410, 31210103911, 31270567, 31421063, 31470566]
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- National Scientific and Technical Foundation Project of China [2012FY112000]
- National Key Research and Development Program
- LizClaiborne and Art Ortenburg Foundation
- ALTA
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Political borders and natural boundaries of wildlife populations seldom coincide, often to the detriment of conservation objectives. Transnational monitoring of endangered carnivores is rare, but is necessary for accurate population monitoring and coordinated conservation policies. We investigate the benefits of collaboratively monitoring the abundance and survival of the critically endangered Amur leopard, which occurs as a single transboundary population across China and Russia. Country-specific results overestimated abundance and were generally less precise compared to integrated monitoring estimates; the global population was similar in both years: 84 (70-108, 95% confidence interval). Uncertainty in country-specific annual survival estimates were approximately twice the integrated estimates of 0.82 (0.69-0.91, 95% confidence limits). This collaborative effort provided a better understanding of Amur leopard population dynamics, represented a first step in building trust, and lead to cooperative agreements to coordinate conservation policies.
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