G. B. Rathbun
1995
<p><span>The recommendations and implementation of the IUCN conservation plan for African Insectivora and elephant-shrews (Nicoll & Rathbun, 1990) are reviewed. Of the 33 species and subspecies of elephant-shrews, only six forest-dwelling taxa are threatened. Until additional status data are gathered, assessed, and published no changes in the IUCN threatened categories should be made: </span><i>Rhynchocyon chrysopygus</i><span> is ‘vulnerable’; </span><i>Rhynchocyon petersi petersi</i><span> and </span><i>Rhynchocyon petersi adersi</i><span> are ‘rare’; and </span><i>Rhynchocyon cirnei cirnei, Rhynchocyon cirnei hendersoni</i><span>, and </span><i>Petrodromus tetradactylus sangi</i><span> are ‘insufficiently known’. Implementing status surveys that have not been completed, especially for the forms of </span><i>R. petersi</i><span> and </span><i>P. t. sangi</i><span>, are a high priority. </span><i>Rhynchocyon petersi</i><span> and </span><i>R. chrysopygus</i><span> densities are lower in altered and trapped forests compared with undisturbed forests. Because undisturbed forests in eastern Africa are highly fragmented, small, and disappearing due to human encroachment, it is important to determine the population dynamics of </span><i>Rhynchocyon</i><span> spp. that occupy degraded forest habitats, such as plantations, follow agricultural lands, and coastal scrub. In the face of the expanding human population, with its increasing need for land and natural resources, </span><i>Rhynchocyon</i><span> populations that occur in these degraded habitats may be all that remain in the future.</span></p>
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10.1111/j.1365-2907.1995.tb00440.x
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Wiley
Conservation issues and strategies for elephant-shrews
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