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May 6, 2021 A small herd of wildebeest walk across the Masai Mara Plains in Kenya at sunset. Matthew Kauffman, who directs the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at UW, is the lead author of a paper, titled “Mapping Out a Future for Ungulate Migrations,” that will appear in the May 7 issue of Science. An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in par...

Credit: Munir Virani May 6, 2021 -- An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN treaty. The detailed maps of the seasonal movements of herds worldwide will help governments, indigenous people and local communities, planners and wildlife managers identify current and future t...