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The present status of larger mammals in Kenting National Park and their conservation concerns was discussed. The park is located on Hengchun Peninsula in the southernmost part of Taiwan. Ten endemic species or subspecies were recorded in the study conducted for the present distribution of the mammals in the park. Species such as white-faced flying...
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... One interesting observation is that nearly 1/2 of the existing larger mammals in Hong Kong are typically forest edge and open-area species elsewhere (Table 2), which was not expected for such a highly urbanized area where city boundaries are usually immediately adjacent to forest edges. A recent study at Kenting National Park (22°N, 121°E), Taiwan, at a similar latitude, found the opposite: despite high wildlife habitat coverage (80% forest and 13% open habitats; Chen and Chung 2003), 80% (4/5) of forest-edge and open-area species, including the Chinese pangolin, small Indian civet (Francis 2008, Chen et al. 2009), leopard cat, and the sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus), became locally extinct when intensive human development near forest edges occurred during the past century (Pei 2004). As mentioned earlier, both spontaneous and managed reforestation has been much faster in the foothills than in higher elevations in Hong Kong, and these foothill forests may have buffered these edge species. ...
We spent 3 yr (2000-2003) surveying the status of larger mammals (> 0.5 kg) in the highly fragmented and degraded landscape of Hong Kong using 373 camera-trap sites distributed in 43 terrestrial wildlife habitat patches. In total, 20 mammal species were recorded including 15 larger mammals. The Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) and red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) were apparently the most abundant species, while the crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva), Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus), and yellow-bellied weasel (Mustela kathiah) were the least abundant. The red muntjac, small Indian civet (Viverricula indica), and Malayan porcupine had the widest distributions, while the Chinese pangolin, small Indian mongoose, and yellow-bellied weasel were most restricted. Many species were absent from Lantau I., despite its relatively large size (144 km2) and lower current human disturbance, suggesting past extirpations. The key management need for larger mammals in Hong Kong is the protection and enhancement of habitat links between adjacent protected areas, especially the cross-border corridor between the National Forest Park in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province and the Country Park system in Hong Kong.
