Animal Translocations: What are they and why do we do them?
By P. Seddon, W. M. Strauss, J. Innes. 2012
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For as long as people have been moving from one place to another, which is as long as humans have been ‘human’, animals and plants have been moved with them, often hidden, unnoticed or ignored, but also as valued cargo. These so-called ‘ethnotramps’ include economically and culturally favoured species such as deer, macaque, civets, wallabies, cassowaries and wild-caught songbirds that were commonly carried around with humans (Heinsohn, 2001). The variety of animals shown to have been translocated by prehistoric human colonists has been described as ‘astonishing’, with archaeological evidence of numerous and widespread human-mediated introductions as far back as tens of millennia, during the Pleistocene (Grayson, 2001). For example, it has been shown that people moved wild animals from the New Guinea mainland
Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration (2017, unknown): “In New Zealand, the extant North Island kokako (Callaeas wilsoni) has been released on Secretary Island in order to restore the ecological functions of the extinct South Island kokako (Callaeas cinerea; Seddon et al. 2012).”
- Using the movement patterns of reintroduced animals to improve reintroduction success (2014, background): “…of animals following their extirpation or extinction from the wild are a central aspect of ecosystem restoration (Polak and Saltz, 2011; Seddon et al., 2012), but despite their importance to conservation, reintroductions are still a complex and risky endeavor, often ending in failure…”
- Compassionate conservation, rehabilitation and translocation of Indonesian slow lorises (2014, background): “These translocations, made into an area where wild slow lorises still occurred, can be considered conservation translocations to reinforce an existing population of conspecifics (Seddon et al. 2012).”