Wildlife of Lao PDR: 1999 Status Report - IUCN

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of many people to both the first and second editions of this status report. Bouaphanh Phanthavong, Khamphan Douangvilay, Khamphay Louanglath, Sansay Souriyakan, Sivannavong Sawathvong and Venevongphet organised the initial field surveys, which formed the basis for the modern understanding of the distribution on Lao wildlife, and conducted and translated village interviews. The bulk of the field information came from surveys of the joint Centre for Protected Areas and Watershed Management (CPAWM) / Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cooperative Program and from surveys organised through IUCN-the World Conservation Union. These could not have been undertaken without the efforts in the field, over several years, of Boonhom Sounthala, Bounsou Souan, Chainoi Sisomphone, Chantavi Vongkhamheng, Khounmee Salivong, Padith Vanalatsmy, Pheng Phaengsintham, Phonasane Vilaymeing, Savanh Chanhthakoumane, Somphong Souliyavong and Soulisak Vanalath. Extensive conceptual advice for the second edition was received from many staff members of CPAWM, including Venevongphet, Chanthaviphone Inthavong, Sivannavong Sawathvong, Boonhom Sounthala, Savay Thammavongsa, Phetsamone Soulivong, Sirivanh Khounthikoumane and Sansay Souriyakan. We thank the following people who provided site records or other information on species status, particularly those who were willing to enter into correspondence to furnish supporting or other further details: Charles Alton, Ian Baird, John Baker, Jeb Barzen, Klaus Berkmüller, Bill Bleisch, Bob Dobias, Gordon Claridge, Skip Dangers, Nick Dymond, Tom Evans, Prithiviraj Fernando, Joost Foppes, Troy Hansel, Mike Hedemark, Rudi Jelinek, Nattakit Krathintong, Sirivanh Khounthikoumane, Stuart Ling, Clive Marsh, Mike Meredith, John Parr, Colin Poole, Alan Rabinowitz, Jean-François Reumaux, Philip Round, Sivannavong Sawathvong, George Schaller, Dave Showler, Boun-oum Siripholdej, Chainoi Sisomphone, Stephen Sparkes, Rob Steinmetz, Ole-Gunnar Støen, Tony Stones, Richard Thewlis, Rob Tizard, Joe Tobias, Chanthavi Vongkhamheng, Joe Walston, Laura Watson, James Wolstencroft and Ramesh Boonratana a.k.a. Zimbo. Ian Baird, James Compton, Laurent Chazee, Ian ‘Johnny’ Johnson and Bounlueane Bouphaphan (Carnivore Preservation Trust), Esmond Bradley Martin, Pisit na Patalung and Sompoad Srikosamatara provided data and valuable insights into the trade in wildlife. Todd Sigaty (IUCN Lao PDR) made available his synthesis of wildlife law information. Sisouvanh Bouphavanh, Thanongsi Sorangkoun, Phayvanh Vongsaly and Xiong Tsechalicha of the IUCN Office in Vientiane assisted with data analysis and checking. Information on other topics was provided by Joost Foppes and Rachel Dechaineux (IUCN Non-Timber Forest Products Project), Bruce Jefferies (Forest Management and Conservation Project), Khankeo Oupravanh (CIDSE) and Kirsten Panzer (MRC/GTZ Forest Cover Mapping Project). Many people outside Lao PDR gave advice or assistance: George Allez; Per Alström; Lon Alterman (Clarke College, Iowa); Giovanni Amori (IUCN/SSC Rodent Specialist Group); Guy Anderson; Lehr Brisbin (Uni. Georgia, USA); Chen Hin Keong and Carol Wong (TRAFFIC South-east Asia); Nigel Collar, Jonathan Eames, Mike Evans and Janet Kwok (BirdLife International); Gabor Csorba (Hungarian Natural History Museum); Edward Dickinson; Robert Fisher and Linda Gordon (United States National Museum); Thomas Geissmann (Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover); Mariano Gimenez-Dixon (IUCN/SSC); Joshua Ginsberg, George Amato and Cheryl Chetkiewicz (WCS New York); Michael Green and Chris Wemmer (IUCN/SSC Deer Specialist Group); Huw Griffiths; Brian Groombridge and Jonathan Baillie (WCMC); Colin Groves (Australian National University); Clare Hawkins; Mandy Haywood and Alison Rosser (IUCN/SSC Wildlife Trade Programme); Lawrence Heaney and William Stanley (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago); Simon Hedges (IUCN/SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group); Bob Hoffmann (Mammal Division, Smithsonian Institution); Sakon Jaisomkom (WWF Thailand Project Office); Paula Jenkins and Daphne Hills (NHM, South Kensington); Ji Weizhi and Wang Yingxiang (Kunming Institute of Zoology); Ben King; Hans Kruuk; Bryn Mader and Fiona Brady (American Museum of Natural History); Tilo Nadler (Endangered Primate Rescue Center, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam); Anouchka Nettelbeck; Jarujin Nabhitabhata (Thailand Institute of Science and Technological Research); Ronald Pine; Pamela Rasmussen, Philip Angle and Gary Graves (Bird Division, Smithsonian Institute); Philip Round; Nancy Ruggeri; Gerry Schroering; David Shackleton and Sandro Lovari (IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group); Chris Smeenk (National Natural History Museum, Leiden); Angela Smith; Paul Sweet (American Museum of Natural History); Lee Talbot; Julia Thomas; Harry Van Rompaey and Roland Wirth (IUCN/SSC Mustelid, Viverrid and Procyonid Specialist Group); Filip Verbelen; Wang Sung (Beijing Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica); and David Willard (Field Museum of Natural History). Tim Inskipp’s work in maintaining an ornithological bibliography of Indochina laid considerably more than the cornerstone of the bird chapter and we gratefully acknowledge the free access to this draft document, provision of references and advice. We are also especially grateful to Craig Robson for answering many questions and providing frequent advice and a draft of his forthcoming identification guide to the birds of South-East Asia. The chapter on herpetofauna could never have been completed without the tremendous help of H. K. Voris and R. F. Inger and the rest of the staff in the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Their identifications of specimens and taxonomic discussions have been invaluable. Likewise, the field work which obtained most of the recent records could not have been conducted without the logistical and field support of the Department of Forestry, Vientiane. Thank you to the following curators and institutions for providing lists of Lao specimens held in their collections, and for granting permission to cite these specimens: Linda S. Ford, AMNH; Jens Vindum, CAS; Harold K. Voris, FMNH; Jose Rosado, MCZ; Greg Schneider, UMMZ; and Ron v
Crombie, USNM. Tanya Chan-ard allowed the author to examine his photographic and specimen records from Lao PDR. Rob Timmins kindly provided all of his unpublished field records of turtles and he and Peter Paul van Dijk gave much valuable insight. R. F. Inger provided helpful comments on the draft species accounts. This work was supported by the WCS Lao Program, National Geographic Society Grant # 6247-98, the Turtle Recovery Program of WCS, the Field Museum of Natural History Scholarship Committee, and the North Carolina Academy of Sciences. H. F. Heatwole and W. G. Robichaud provided general assistance throughout. C. M. Francis and A. Guillén thank the Lao Department of Forestry for permission to carry out field work for bats in Lao PDR, and Khamkhoun Khounboline, Chanhthavy Vongkhamheng, Khoonmy Salivong, Fung Yun Lin, Fiona Francis, Nik Aspey, Robert Tizard and Carlos Ibañez for assistance in the field. M. F. Robinson thanks the staff of the Lao PDR Department of Forestry and the Forest Management and Conservation Project (FOMACOP) for permission to survey small mammals in Lao PDR and for overseeing his field work; Robert Mather, Robert Steinmetz, and Bruce Jefferies for organising and ensuring the smooth running of the project; and Maurice Webber, Thongphanh Ratanalangsy, Sinnasone Seangchantharong, Kongthong Phommavongsa and Nousine Latvylay for assistance in the field. Financial support for CMF and AG was provided by WCS, the Senckenberg Museum, and Bird Studies Canada. MFR was funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the World Bank to the Lao PDR government, via a contract with Burapha Development Consultants and sub-contracted to World Wide Fund for Nature Thailand Project Office. Assistance with identifying some bat specimens was provided by Judith Eger, Dieter Kock and Paulina Jenkins. We thank Gabor Csorba (Hungarian Natural History Museum) for provision of information and Angela Smith for valuable advice on the manuscript. C. M. Francis thanks Mark Engstrom from the Royal Ontario Museum for assistance with identification of some of the rat specimens. Khamkhoun Khounboline, Chanhthavy Vongkhamheng, Nik Aspey, Robert Tizard and Antonio Guillén assisted with field work during his surveys of small mammals in Lao PDR. Financial support was provided by the WCS and Bird Studies Canada. Mark Robinson gave a critical review of an early draft of the murid chapter, and provided additional unpublished records. Guy Musser provided helpful information on taxonomy. Complete or partial drafts were reviewed by John Baker, Stuart Chape, Pete Davidson, Tom Evans, Colin Groves, Troy Hansel, Michael Hedemark and Arlyne Johnson, Clive Marsh, John Parr, Bill Robichaud, Sivannavong Sawathvong, Rob Timmins, Rob Tizard and Venevongphet. Their constructive comments did much to improve the quality of the eventual work. Margaret Jefferies sub-edited much of the text. We are very grateful to all the photographers (as listed in the captions) for permitting the free use of their images in this work. It would be remiss not to acknowledge the assistance of the drivers Bounthavi Phommachanh and Chansome, the Vientiane staff of IUCN, WCS and CPAWM, the many provincial and district officials who facilitated our surveys, and the villagers in rural Lao PDR who freely shared their knowledge of local wildlife during our surveys of remote rural areas. The support of Stuart Chape (IUCN Country Representative for Lao PDR), Bill Robichaud and Michael Hedemark (successive WCS Lao Program Co-ordinators) and Venevongphet (Director of CPAWM) at all stages of the project to produce a second edition was essential and is gratefully acknowledged. David Hulse generously permitted use of the facilities of the WWF office in Hanoi during preparatory data collation and extraction for the project. The base map is modified from one compiled by the ADB Regional Environment Technical Assistance Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management in Remote Watersheds of the Greater Mekong Subregion, using the data provided by CPAWM. Personally, the compilers thank the section authors for timely delivery, forbearance over editorial matters and in some cases extensive contribution to other aspects of the project. The second edition was produced with the assistance of IUCN’s South and Southeast Asia Regional Biodiversity Programme and the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). vi
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LARGE MAMMALS J. W. Duckworth, R. J
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no hunter could confuse a gibbon, e
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Species Phou Dendin NBCA Large Mamm
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Species Xe Bang-Nouan NBCA Xe Sap N
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Young White-handed Gibbon, Xaignabo
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m in limestone karst. Status Inform
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Duckworth in press). Status Informa
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[• Hylobates gabriellae Yellow-ch
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Range and Habitat: North M15 , cent
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ear action and management plan and
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Sun Bear, Xe Pian NBCA, early 1997.
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China and Vietnam (Martin 1992, Sri
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Table 15. Summary of observations o
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ace of S. scrofa in Lao PDR, S. s.
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Eld’s Deer footprint, Dong Khanth
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areas during the rainy season (Deuv
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the headwaters of the Xe Bangfai an
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Lao range to merit designation as a
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Conservation Management and Researc
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ORDER INSECTIVORA M. F. Robinson IN
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of north-east Laos. In Malaysia it
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ORDER CHIROPTERA: BATS C. M. Franci
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Rhinolophus acuminatus, Dong Khanth
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1992). In Lao PDR has been found ro
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• Hipposideros armiger Great Roun
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east Thailand, that had apparently
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REFERENCES Written Allen, G. M. 192
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Laos. Bull. Soc. Roy. Sci. Nat. du
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ats in Phou Khao Khoay NBCA. Vienti
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mittee (draft report). MacKinnon, J
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Robinson, H. C. 1915. On the birds
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ANNEX 1 Selected bird and mammal sp
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ANNEX 2 CITES-listed wildlife speci
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Species Key species: status Current
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Species Association with wetlands R
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Species Global Lao threat status ri
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