Camera trapping of large mammals in Yenice Forest, Turkey: local information versus camera traps

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Can, Oezguen Emre
Togan, İnci Zehra

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Information on large mammals in Turkey is limited, and widely applicable, reliable field methods need to be used to gather appropriate data for conservation and management. To evaluate local information on mammal species we conducted interview and ground surveys, followed by a camera trap survey, during January-May 2006 in Yenice Forest, a globally important and intact region for mammals in Turkey. Interviews with local people provided information on the occurrence of wolf Canis lupus, brown bear Ursus arctos, wild cat Felis silvestris, red fox Vulpes vulpes, Eurasian badger Meles meles, pine marten Martes martes, roe deer Capreolus capreolus, wild boar Sus scrofa and Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx. The ground and camera trap surveys confirmed the presence of all these species except lynx. In addition, the camera trap survey documented the presence of jackal Canis aureus and brown hare Lepus europaeus, signs of which were not found in the ground survey and whose presence was not known by local people. Local information on wildlife is important but management and conservation initiatives should not solely depend on such information and, as our study indicates, inter-view surveys cannot replace field research. The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry needs to consider the establishment of a protected area large enough to secure the future of the large mammals of Yenice Forest.

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52124

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ORYX

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605308000628

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O. E. Can and İ. Z. Togan, “Camera trapping of large mammals in Yenice Forest, Turkey: local information versus camera traps,” ORYX, pp. 427–430, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52124.