Felid and Prey Detections Indicate Cerro Hoya National Park, Panama, as an Important Conservation Area

Clayton Kent Nielsen and Jessica Lynn Fort
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Jessica Lynn Fort: Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory and Department of Forestry, Southern Illinois University, USA

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2020, vol. 23, issue 3, 103-105

Abstract: Wildlife research in Panama has focused primarily on protected areas along the Central Cordillera, where much of the remaining mature rainforest habitat is located. Basic information on felids and prey in isolated habitats in Panama is limited. During 2014-2015, we conducted a camera-trapping survey (n = 2,925 camera-days) in Cerro Hoya National Park (CHNP), Panama, an isolated remnant of tropical rainforest habitat separated by 125 km from the Central Cordillera. We detected 5 of 6 felid species (detection frequency = 0.03-3.04 detections/100 camera-days) known to inhabit Panama, including a likely breeding population of jaguars. We detected 6 important mammalian prey species (detection frequency = 0.21-12.10 detections/100 camera-days) of felids but recorded no white-lipped peccaries in CHNP. We recommend that CHNP be considered a top priority area for wildlife conservation in Panama.

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Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.23.556115

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