This is a follow-up to our analysis of the entire group of carnivores that we published last year. They're just as endangered as the large carnivores are. About 60 percent of these large herbivores are threatened with extinction. Read about how many elephants poachers took in just three years. We thought the large carnivores, as a group, would be more threatened than the large herbivores just because the large carnivores are more persecuted. But that was not the case. We also expected that habitat loss would be the dominant threat, but in the end we found that hunting for meat and body parts was probably more significant than habitat loss itself.
Hunting for meat has two types: One is subsistence, but another major one is for consumption by people in cities. Bush meat is getting to be quite a popular food choice by people who have more income and live in cities and towns. With the subsistence people, their numbers are increasing. At the same time, wildlife populations are going down, so we have a perfect storm here, with fewer wildlife numbers and [higher] demand.
Learn more about the public appetite for wild meat. It's international. You'll find bush meat or wild meat is being sold in many different countries, and it's exported from developing countries. Some is going to Southeast Asia, and some is even going to Great Britain and other developed countries.
Gorillas are taken for body parts [head, hands, and feet]. Giraffes are killed for both their meat and their hides—they're not threatened, but they're getting closer because of the hunting for them. Then cervids, which are deer—they're typically coveted for their antlers.
Tapirs are taken for their feet and hides. Equids, which are the horses, [are also taken] for their feet and hides. With hippos, there's ivory in the teeth. Ivory is really, at this point, in high demand. Read a National Geographic magazine article on Asia's wildlife trade.
I'm cautiously optimistic for a few reasons. One is, generally, people love these large animals, and they don't want to see them wiped out. So I feel that by us publishing this study, and the media picking up on it, the information can get to a broader world community. AWF works with governments and communities to designate wildlife corridors — large swaths of land that zebras can use to from one park, or country, to another.
Corridors link protected areas and allow wildlife to follow rains or migrate to their feeding grounds. In Kenya, communities have improved their livelihoods through a partnership with Ol Pejeta Conservancy, financed by African Wildlife Foundation. The Linking Livestock Markets to Conservation initiative links pastoralists to premium livestock markets and provides high prices to pastoralists who adhere to conservation criteria, thereby reducing overstocking, rangeland degradation, and resource competition for wildlife.
This annual trek to find food and water covers a distance of around 2, kilometers 1, miles and exposes them to a myriad of dangers.
River crossings leave herds vulnerable to crocodiles, while the size of the migration itself brings lions, hyenas, and wild dogs. Harems generally remain together for months or even years, making it an incredibly stable family unit. Plains zebras have at least 6 different vocal calls. A two-syllable call is used to alert herd members to predators while snorts indicate happiness.
They also use facial expressions to communicate. When greeting each other, they will stick their ears up and push their faces forward. When feeling threatened, they will press their ears against their heads. Unlike many ungulates in Africa, zebras do not require short grass to graze. Instead, they eat a wide variety of different grasses, sometimes even eating leaves and young trees. As a result, they can range more widely than many other species, often venturing into woodlands.
They have a wide range in east and southern Africa. They usually live in treeless grasslands and savanna woodlands and are absent from deserts, rainforests, and wetlands. Donate now. Learn how we're protecting Africa's species each and every day so we never have to live in a world without elephants, rhinos, and other precious wildlife. Breadcrumb Wildlife Conservation Grevy's Zebra. Grevy's Zebra. Scientific name. Equus grevyi. Life span. Grasslands and savannas. Lions, cheetahs, hyenas, hunting dogs, African wild dogs, leopards, humans.
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