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

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  • Clayton Kent Nielsen
  • Jessica Lynn Fort

    (Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory and Department of Forestry, Southern Illinois University, USA)

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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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  • Clayton Kent Nielsen & Jessica Lynn Fort, 2020. "Felid and Prey Detections Indicate Cerro Hoya National Park, Panama, as an Important Conservation Area," International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 23(3), pages 103-105, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:23:y:2020:i:3:p:103-105
    DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.23.556115
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