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A new report by scientists at four major Florida universities projects that a new wildlife corridor, if completed, will allow wildlife to survive in the coming decades and make climate change less destructive to humans.
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But that’s where the similarity ends. “When you take a closer look at the distribution of species, it’s a bit out of whack,” Gaynor said. The large herbivores that were dominant before the war — iconic African animals like zebra, wildebeest and hippopotamus — were rare. Large carnivores were rarer still, with only lions remaining after the war. "The savanna now belonged to baboons, warthogs, bushbuck and especially waterbuck, which dominated the survey. “Waterbuck have been reproducing exponentially,” Gaynor said, adding that it remained to be seen whether the unchecked popula...
E-Mail When civil war broke out in Mozambique more than 40 years ago, it largely spelled doom for animals in Gorongosa National Park, a 1,500-square-mile reserve on the floor of the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley, in the heart of the country. As the decades-long fighting spilled over into the reserve, many of the creatures became casualties of the conflict. Throughout the war and even for some time after, food insecurity drove people to kill the animals to feed themselves. The hunting and poaching were hardest on the large mammals. "More than 90% of the large mammals in the p...