{"id":33997,"date":"2019-03-08T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=33997"},"modified":"2019-03-08T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:58:30","slug":"cardiff-research-could-help-save-rare-sunda-clouded-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/08\/cardiff-research-could-help-save-rare-sunda-clouded-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff research could help save rare Sunda Clouded Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34470\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/OD38qwJg-e1552039692894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/OD38qwJg-e1552039692894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/noscript> Close up of the Sunda clouded leopard taken by a camera trap in the Kinabtangan forest, Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by the Danau Girang Field Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA RARE and endangered Leopard may have a brighter future due to the work of a Cardiff researcher.<br \/>\nDr Benoit Goossens, from Cardiff University and his team at the Danau Girang Field Centre, Borneo, have created a 10-year plan to help the Sunda Clouded Leopard cope with habitat fragmentation.<br \/>\nThere are estimated to be 750 individual Sunda clouded leopards left and the species is listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is one of the least studied big cats because of its rarity and because it is only native to Borneo and Sumatra.<br \/>\nDr Goossens&#8217; team measured the leopard\u2019s population all over the Sabah area of Borneo to see how it was coping with the loss of its habitat.<br \/>\nSabah has been called a global hotspot for forest loss and degradation due to timber and oil palm industries with 80% of the land surface impacted by high impact logging or clearing operations from 1990 to 2009.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34480\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34480 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1400x788.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34480 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/mT6vXwaw-1400x788.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/noscript> Photo taken by the Danau Girang Field Centre camera trap.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe study, which forms the basis of the State Action Plan, was collaboratively carried out by Cardiff University School of Biosciences&#8217;s Danau Girang Field Centre along with\u00a0Oxford University\u2019s Zoology Department Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), the US Forest Service and Sabah Wildlife Department.<br \/>\nThe Danau Girang Field Centre is in the northern portion of Borneo and is a collaborative research and training facility managed by the Sabah Wildlife Department and Cardiff University.<br \/>\nDr Andrew Hearn, from WildCRU, said: \u201cSabah is a stronghold for the Sunda clouded leopard in Borneo, yet this rarely seen animal is found at very low population densities, typically as few as 1-5 animals every 100 square kilometres of forest.<br \/>\n\u201cSuch rarity, coupled with the fact that their forest home is shrinking and becoming increasingly isolated, may expose these beautiful cats to the negative effects of population isolation, as individual animals struggle to disperse across the landscape.\u201d<br \/>\nThe State Action Plan explains that the protected areas of its habitat are too small and fragmented to secure the long-term survival of the leopard and that more areas of forest need to be protected and some reclaimed from oil palm plantations.<br \/>\nWithout jungle corridors linking the areas of protected lands the leopard is left in small isolated pockets of jungle, jeopardising its survival due to lack of food, a lack of genetic diversity and increased proximity to humans who hunt or poach the rare animal.<br \/>\nDr Goossens said: \u201cThe two biggest threats to the clouded leopard are habitat loss and hunting, poaching and the animal trade. Wildlife cannot survive without its habitat and for leopards it is being lost to humans and oil palm plantations.\u201d<br \/>\nThe research showed that the leopards will avoid oil palm plantations at all costs, moving along roads and incredibly narrow jungle ridges to reach other areas of jungle.<br \/>\nThe research tracked the movement of the leopards by fitting satellite collars which eventually drop off.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34481\" style=\"width: 911px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34481 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36.png 911w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-770x430.png 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-500x279.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-293x164.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34481 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36.png 911w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-770x430.png 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-500x279.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/Screenshot-2019-03-08-at-10.06.36-293x164.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/noscript> Photo supplied by Cardiff University School of Biosciences<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDr Goossens explained that whilst having protected areas is good, most of the protected land is now enclosed by palm oil plantations cutting off males and females and reducing genetic diversity which is needed to stop genetic problems.<br \/>\nThe leopard is also threatened by disease transmission from domestic cats and dogs, a problem that has already affected African Lions, Ethiopian Wolves and Amur tigers.<br \/>\nThis occurs when the land use is changed \u2013 from jungle to palm oil plantations \u2013 as it means that infrastructure such as roads and rail developments penetrate the forest allowing dangers, such as disease, poachers and hunters in.<br \/>\nDr Benoit Goossens said: \u201cThe Chinese medicine trade is a huge threat to the animal.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34506\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-1400x788.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/D7JLMLbA-1536x864.jpg 1536w, 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no hope.<br \/>\n\u201cI have to spend the next ten years doing something about it and pushing for the action, so there is pressure, but I am not alone and we do things together.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe popular series Borneo Jungle Diaries this week released an episode on the Clouded leopard.<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Clouded Leopard: Capturing one of the World&#039;s Rarest Cats (S02E05) | SZtv\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPYflD53GJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Clouded Leopard: Capturing one of the World&#039;s Rarest Cats (S02E05) | SZtv\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPYflD53GJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; 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Dr Benoit Goossens, from Cardiff University and his team at the Danau Girang Field Centre, Borneo, have created a 10-year plan to help the Sunda Clouded Leopard cope with habitat fragmentation. There are estimated to be 750 individual Sunda clouded leopards left and the species is listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 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