Conserving wildlife amongst the cotton fields. A third of a century of experience at the Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso

Bouché, Philippe; Lejeune, Philippe; Bailly, Vincent; Muyle, Margaux; Zinque, Marie-Hélène; Mercier, Alizé; Cornélis, Daniel; Lungren, Clark; Portier, Bruno; Marchal, Antoine; Renault, Florent; Yaméogo, Dieudonné; Kafando, Pierre; Sawadogo, Prosper; Vermeulen, Cédric

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Conserving wildlife amongst the cotton fields. A third of a century of experience at the Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso

Bouché, Philippe; Lejeune, Philippe; Bailly, Vincent et al.

2016 • In Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188, p. 13

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Burkina Faso; distance sampling wildlife surveys; human impact on wildlife; mammalian longterm trends; Nazinga Game Ranch; wildlife management

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[en] Established in the early 1970 as a participatory wildlife production area, the Nazinga Game Ranch turned into an island of conservation surrounded by cultivation.We asked ourselves how long-term ungulate trends are affected in a context of continuous human pressure. To find out, we compiled and analysed the data of yearly line-transect counts of mammals carried out since 1985. Results showed that large species such as the elephant (Loxodonta africana) and large antelopes increased or showed stable populations. In contrast, medium and small ungulates showed continuously decreasing trends. During the same period, rainfall, water availability from artificial water points and the crop encroaching outside Nazinga Game Ranch increased. After an initial significant reduction, illegal human signs increased. However, we showed that human signs were positively correlated with the abundance of large ungulates but negatively correlated with the abundance of medium and small ones. In conclusion, this study showed that some isolated mammal populations could be restored and maintained in the long term, in spite of being surrounded by highly cultivated areas.

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Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
Agriculture & agronomy

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Bouché, Philippe

Lejeune, Philippe ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Gestion des ressources forestières et des milieux naturels

Bailly, Vincent

Muyle, Margaux

Zinque, Marie-Hélène

Mercier, Alizé

Cornélis, Daniel

Lungren, Clark

Portier, Bruno

Marchal, Antoine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. sc. agro. & ingé. biol.

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Conserving wildlife amongst the cotton fields. A third of a century of experience at the Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso

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2016

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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

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0167-6369

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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands

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188

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