Hotspots for large herbivores in Europe and Asia

By Simone Lhota and Wolf Schröder, June 2001

Wildbiologische Gesellschaft
Lantech Inovationszentrum
Bruggfeldstrasse 5
A-6500 Landeck
Austria

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Acknowledgement

The hotspot report has been commissioned and financed by the Large Herbivore Initiative (LHI). It is the result of a teamwork of many people that form the LHI network. The completion would not have been possible without their help.

We would like to thank the following persons for their endless patience in answering our questions that hailed down on them per email and for the very interesting and useful information they have provided:

• Russian hotspots: Olga Pereladova and Leonid Baskin
• Hardangervidda: Olav Strand and Reidar Andersen
• Cantabrian Mountains: Juan Herrero
• Central Appenine: Luca Pedrotti
• Carpathians: Kajetan Perzanowski
• Mongolia: Chimed Ochir, Yoko Watanabe and Henry Mix
• Petra Ziemer for the very helpful internet search
• All the others that supported this work in one or another way

Criteria for selection

• The functioning of the ecosystem
• The completeness of large systems
• Variety among hotspots
• The composition of different species
• Speciality of natural phenomena
• Degree of threats
• Opportunities for conservation
• Variety among hotspots to a satisfying extent.

General References

1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. 1996. Available from IUCN Publications services Unit, Information Press, Oxford.

CROMSIGT, J. 2000. Database for the Large Herbivore Initiative. Report and database.

SHACKLETON, D. M. (Ed.) 1997. Wild Sheep and Goats and their Relatives: Status survey and Conservation Action Plan for Caprinae. IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group, Information Press, Oxford, UK.

WEMMER, C. (Ed.) 1998. Deer: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Deer Specialist Group, Information Press, Oxford, UK.

Map of hotspots