Abstract
BackgroundIn partnership with the University of Pretoria, the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Carnivore Conservation Programme collared six male and three female free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Thabazimbi area in Limpopo Province, South Africa. This study was undertaken to determine the spatial ecology of free-roaming Cheetahs that occur outside of formal protected areas on private ranchland, where they frequently come into conflict with, and are sometimes killed by, private landowners. The data were collected between September 2003 and November 2008, resulting in a total of 3165 location points (65 points from VHF collars and 3100 from GPS collars) for nine individual Cheetahs.New informationThis dataset provides distribution information about this Vulnerable species occurring outside of protected areas within South Africa. The dataset has been published to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.GBIF.org) and provides the largest dataset on Cheetahs thus far, and, although it is spatially limited to a relatively small region on the African continent, it is the first study of its kind within South Africa. Also of significance is that the fate of 6 of the 9 collared Cheetahs is known, all except one of which died of anthropogenic causes.
Highlights
Three populations of the Vulnerable Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) exist in South Africa: 1) a population of approximately 400 individuals occurring in the Kruger National Park (Marnewick et al 2014), 2) a metapopulation that requires intensive management, comprising of approximately 300 Cheetah which are temporarily in private or state protected areas (van der Merwe et al 2016) and 3) a free-roaming population of unknown size occurring on private ranchland outside of protected areas (Marnewick 2015)
The dataset has been published to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and provides the largest dataset on Cheetahs far, and, it is spatially limited to a relatively small region on the African continent, it is the first study of its kind within South Africa
Three populations of the Vulnerable Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) exist in South Africa: 1) a population of approximately 400 individuals occurring in the Kruger National Park (Marnewick et al 2014), 2) a metapopulation that requires intensive management, comprising of approximately 300 Cheetah which are temporarily in private or state protected areas and 3) a free-roaming population of unknown size occurring on private ranchland outside of protected areas (Marnewick 2015)
Summary
In partnership with the University of Pretoria, the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Carnivore Conservation Programme collared six male and three female free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Thabazimbi area in Limpopo Province, South Africa. This study was undertaken to determine the spatial ecology of free-roaming Cheetahs that occur outside of formal protected areas on private ranchland, where they frequently come into conflict with, and are sometimes killed by, private landowners. The data were collected between September 2003 and November 2008, resulting in a total of 3165 location points (65 points from VHF collars and 3100 from GPS collars) for nine individual Cheetahs. This dataset provides distribution information about this Vulnerable species occurring outside of protected areas within South Africa. Free-roaming Cheetah, conservation, spatial ecology, outside of protected areas
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