User:Altaileopard

I am from Nürnberg in Franconia, Germany. Here, in the english Wikipedia, I work almost exclusively on vertebrates, escpecially wild, recent mammals and pleistocene mammals. I am also active as Altaileopard in the german Wikipedia.

The World´s Greatest Wildlife Reserves
This list is a work base for me and might also inspire people to visit these places. Tourism could be on a long term the best chance to save large wildlife reserves especially in poor countries. So please do keep visiting wildlife sanctuaries and help conserve the big game of our earth (...if you have the opportunity). Some of the listed reserves are also important areas for birds and some include marine habitats, but the focus is on large terrestrial animals, which often rely on large, undisturbed reserves.

Australian Region

 * Yumbarra and Gawler Ranges (South Australia): Yellabinna Regional Reserve, Yumbarra Conservation Park, Pureba Conservation Park, Koolgarra Conservation Park, Gawler Ranges National Park
 * Shrubland, semi desert, and desert with dingo, large population of the Southern hairy-nosed wombat, red kangaroo, emu. In Gawler Ranges also a population of the rare yellow-footed rock-wallaby


 * Kangaroo Island Nature Reserves (South Australia): Flinders Chase National Park (328 km²), Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area
 * Kangaroo Island kangaroo, tammar wallaby koala, platypus, short-beaked echidna


 * Wet Tropics of Queensland (Queensland): Daintree National Park (1,200 km²),
 * Australian rainforest with Southern cassowary, Bennett's tree-kangaroo, musky rat-kangaroo, swamp wallaby, platypus, and short-beaked echidna


 * Lorentz National Park (25,056 km²; New Guinea, Indonesia)
 * Rainforests between sea shore and alpine areas inhabited by Southern cassowary, long-beaked echidna, short-beaked echidna, dingiso and other tree kangaroos

Southern Asia

 * Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park (2,871 km²; Sulawesi)
 * Important refuge for the larger mammals of Sulawesi, like Lowland anoa, babirusa, Sulawesi warty pig


 * Khao Yai National Park and adjoining reserves (Thailand)
 * Indochinese Tiger (few), leopard, clouded leopard, dhole, Asian elephant, gaur, sambar deer; originally also kouprey


 * Vu Quang National Park (Vietnam) and Nakai–Nam Theun (Lao)
 * saola, giant muntjac, Red-shanked douc, gaur


 * Sundarbans (India, Bangladesh): Sunderbans National Park
 * Large population of bengal tigers in a Mangrove Swamp, other animals include chital, wild boar and saltwater crocodile


 * Bardia-Dudhwa National Parks (Nepal/India): Bardia National Park, Dudhwa National Park and Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve
 * Asian elephant, Indian rhinoceros, bengal tiger, barasingha, sambar deer, chital


 * Bandhavgarh(India): Bandhavgarh National Park
 * Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, leopard, gaur, nilgai, sambar deer, chital, indian gazelle


 * Yala National Park (Sri Lanka)
 * Sri Lankan leopard, Asian elephant, water buffalo


 * Velavadar National Park
 * Large population of black buck antelope and also nilgai, Indian wolf, striped hyena


 * Negev Desert with Makhtesh Ramon and Ein Avdat National Park
 * Arabian wolf, Small relict population of Arabian leopard; also Nubian ibex, dorcas gazelle, as well as introduced Asian wild ass and Arabian oryx


 * Mahazat as-Sayd (2.244 km²; Saudi Arabia)
 * Very large enclosured desert area free from domestic live stock, large population of Arabian oryx and Arabian goitered gazelle

Africa

 * Bou-Hedma National Park (Tunesia)
 * Fenced areas with scimitar oryx, addax, dama gazelle; wild population of dorcas gazelle; potential reintroduction site for Cuvier's gazelle and hartebeest (entirely extinct in North Africa)


 * Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Ahaggar National Park and Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve (Algeria, Niger)
 * Large reserves in the Sahara desert with Northwest African cheetah, dorcas gazelle, Barbary sheep


 * Lower Valley of the Awash (Ethiopia): Awash National Park, Yangudi Rassa National Park and Mille-Serdo Wild Ass Reserve
 * One of the last refugees for the critically endangered African wild ass.


 * Waza National Park (Cameron)
 * One of the last populations of lion and elephant in western Africa and one of the last populations of the Kordofan giraffe; also leopard, kob antelope, warthog, roan, red-fronted gazelle and korrigum


 * Samburu-Mount Kenya (Kenya): Samburu National Reserve, Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Shaba National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and Mount Kenya National Park (Kenia)
 * Typical dry savannah animals of northern Kenya like gerenuk, warthog, Grant's gazelle, Kirk's dik-dik, Grevy's zebra, Beisa oryx and reticulated giraffe; in addition lion, cheetah, leopard, African elephant, buffalo, hippopotamus, impala, and waterbuck


 * Selous (Tansania)
 * One of the largest reserves in Africa and home to large populations of elephants, hippos, African wild dogs, Cape buffaloes and Nyassaland wildebeest


 * Addo, Camdeboo and Mountain Zebra National Park (South Africa)
 * Typical fauna of the Cape including Cape mountain zebra, black wildebeest, blesbuck, red hartebeest, gemsbock; in addition also Cape buffalo, cheetah and black rhino (in Addo also african elephant, lion and spotted hyena


 * Niokolo Koba National Park (Senegal)
 * Last refuge for the Western giant eland, also West African lion, leopard, African buffalo, hippo


 * Boma National Park and Gambela National Park (Southern Sudan / Ethiopia)
 * Large herds of white-eared kob and tiang


 * Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of Congo)
 * Large rainforest south of the Kongo River, home to bonobos, leopards and a few African forest elephants


 * Rainforests of West Gabon: Loangao National Park, Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Waka National Park, Lopé National Park (Gabon)
 * African forest elephant, Central chimpanzee, Western lowland gorilla, leopard, bongo; Lopé NP has one of the largest populations of the mandrill


 * Taï National Park (Ivory Coast)
 * One of the last populations of the Pygmy Hippo, also African forest elephant, Western chimpanzee, leopard, giant forest hog, red river hog, bongo


 * Semien Mountains National Park (Ethiopia)
 * Last refuge for the Walia ibex; also Ethiopian wolf and gelada


 * Isalo National Park (Madagascar)
 * Rocky savannah with fossa, ring-tailed lemur, Verreaux's sifaka, red-fronted lemur


 * Masoala National Park (Madagascar)
 * Rainforest with red ruffed lemur and aye-aye

Northern Eurasia

 * Golestan National Park and Touran National Park including Miandasht Wildlife Refuge (Iran)
 * Persian leopard, wolf, wild boar, maral, roe deer, urial, wild goat, goitered gazelle; in Touran also Asiatic cheetah, Persian onager


 * Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries (Sichuan, China): Wolong National Nature Reserve)
 * Giant panda, takin, leopard


 * Wolga steppes: Chyornye Zemli Nature Reserve and Astrakhan Nature Reserve (Russia)
 * Saiga antelope, wolf


 * Białowieża (Poland / Belarus)
 * One of the last populations of the European bison


 * Sierra de Andújar (Spain)
 * One of the last populations of the Spanish lynx. In addition Iberian red deer, European fallow deer, wild boar, mouflon, Spanish ibex


 * Oostvaardersplassen (Netherlands)
 * Largest herds of wild animals in Europe: heck cattle, konik, red deer


 * Khustain Nuru and Gorkhi-Terelj (Mongolia) with Bogdkhan National Park and Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area
 * Reintroduced Przewalski horses; also wolf, argali, Siberian ibex, Siberian wapiti, wild boar, roe deer


 * Pamir-Karakoram: Taxkorgan Reserve, Khunjerab National Park, Central Karakoram National Park (China, Pakistan)
 * Important reserves for Marco Polo sheep and snow leopard, also Flare-horned markhor, Asiatic ibex, blue sheep, Ladakh urial, wolf, brown bear


 * Bathyz Nature Reserve (Turkmenistan)
 * Important refuge for kulan, urial, wild goat, wild boar, striped hyena, Persian leopard


 * Ili Delta (Kazakhstan): Planned National Park by joining the Nature Reserves Karoiskiy Zakaznik (509.00ha), Pribalhashaskiy Zakaznik (503.00 ha) and Kukanskkiy Zakaznik (49.100 ha)
 * wolf, goitered gazelle, wild boar, roe deer, in the desert a few saiga antelopes; planned reintroduction of the Tiger, Bukhara deer and wild ass


 * Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve
 * Bukhara deer, urial; One of the occurences of the extinct Caspian tiger and possible reintroduction site for closely related Siberian tiger


 * Kedrovaya Pad and Leopardovy Wildlife Reserve, Hunchun Nature Reserve, Changbai Shan Nature Reserve
 * Mountains of Southern Norway (Rondane National Park, Dovre National Park, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park and others; Norway)
 * Several thousand sqkm mountain wilderness with one of the largest population of the wild reindeer in Europe, also musk ox, moose, brown bear, volverine, wolf

North America (except South)

 * Ellesmere Island (Kanada)
 * Musk ox, Peary caribou, Arctic wolf


 * Denali (Alaska, USA)
 * Great landscape with grizzly, wolf, volverine, dalls sheep, caribou, moose


 * Katmai National Park
 * Very large brown bears, wolf, volverine, caribou, moose


 * Kluane-Wrangell-St. Elias-Glacier Bay-Tatshenshini-Alsek
 * One of the largest populations of the dall sheep; also wolf, American black bear, grizzly, sitka black-tailed deer, moose, caribou, mountain goat, and introduced bison


 * Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Kanada): Banff National Park and Jasper National Park
 * wolf, grizzly, American black bear, Canadian lynx, volverine, moose, bighorn sheep, wapiti


 * Wood Buffalo National Park
 * Largest population of the American wood bison; also wolves, moose


 * Dakota-Badlands (Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park (>1000 km²; South Dakota, USA), Theodore Roosevelt National Park''' (285 km²; North Dakota, USA)
 * grasland and badlands with bison, bighorn sheep, mule deer, white-tailed deer, pronghorn at Theodore Roosevelt National Park also mustang as a proxy for extinct pleistocene horses and wapiti


 * Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park & Kings Canyon National Park
 * Puma, American Black Bear, and Mule Deer in stunning landscape with Giant Sequoias


 * Big Bend National Park
 * puma, bobcat, American black bear, mule deer, white-tailed deer, collared peccary


 * Everglades National Park
 * puma, white-tailed deer, Mississippi alligator

South- and Middle-America

 * '''Northern Jaguar Reserve (Mexico)
 * Jaguar, puma, bobcat and ocelot. Important prey species of the large cats are white-tailed deer and javelinas.


 * La Amistad International Park & Corcovado National Park including Humedal Nacional Terraba-Sierpe Park and potential corridor via the Térraba River valley (Costa Rica, Panama)
 * Good population of Baird´s tapir and one of the final strongholds of the Jaguar in Central America; also ocelot, puma Central American squirrel monkey, white-faced capuchin, mantled howler, Geoffroy's spider monkey, two-toed and three-toed sloth, collared peccary, Northern tamandua and silky anteater.


 * Llanos (Venezuela)
 * Large populations of capybaras and many other wildlife in a wet savanna landscape.


 * Sangay National Park (Equador)
 * One of the mst important strongholds of the mountain tapir; also spectacled bears, pumas and Andean foxes, giant otters, jaguars, ozelots, margays, Brazilian tapirs, white-tailed deer, little red brocket deer and Northern pudus


 * Jaú National Park (Brazil)
 * Iguazu (Brazil / Argentinia): Iguazú National Park and Iguaçu National Park
 * Kaaiya del Gran Chaco
 * Gran Chaco with Chacoan peccary, a large population of jaguar, puma, Brazilian tapir and one of the northernmost populations of the guanaco


 * Emas National Park (Brazil)
 * Cerrado savannah with giant anteater, maned wolf, giant armadillo, pampas deer, greater rhea, puma, ozelot, Brazilian tapir, collared peccary, white-lipped peccary, marsh deer, red brocket, gray brocket, black howler monkey, capybara and a small population of jaguars


 * Lauca National Park and Las Vicuñas National Reserve
 * Important area for the vicugna and other animals of the Altiplano


 * Galapagos

Contribution
Saiga antelope, Lion, Leopard, Tiger, Panthera leo fossilis, Pelorovis, Cave lion, American lion, Kanha National Park, Euceratherium, Homotherium, Smilodon, Boar, Red deer, Percrocutidae, Proailurus, Pseudaelurus, Paramachairodus, Felidae, Mouflon, Tibetan red deer ...

Links

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Important Literature

 * Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
 * Malcolm C. Mc Kenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press; Auflage: New Ed (15. Februar 2000). ISBN: 978-0231110136
 * David Macdonald: Die große Enzyklopädie der Säugetiere. Deutsche Ausgabe: Könemann in der Tandem Verlag GmbH, 2004 ISBN 3-8331-1006-6
 * Paul S. Martin: Quaternary Extinctions. The University of Arizona Press, 1984. ISBN 0-8165-1100-4
 * A. Turner: The big cats and their fossil relatives. Columbia University Press, 1997.ISBN 0-231-10229-1
 * A. H. Müller: Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie, Band III Vertebraten, Teil 3 Mammalia, 2. Auflage. Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1989. ISBN 3-334-00223-3
 * M. Barton: Wildes Amerika Zeugen der Eiszeit. Egmont Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-8025-1558-7
 * E. Thenius: Grundzüge der Faunen- und Verbreitungsgeschichte der Säugetiere, 2.Auflage, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980
 * Jean Dorst und Pierre Dandelot: Säugetiere Afrikas, Paul Parey Verlag, 1970. ISBN 3-490-01018-3
 * K K Gurung & Raj Singh: Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent, Academic Press, San Diego, ISBN 0-12-309350-3
 * V. G. Heptner: Mammals of the Sowjetunion Vol. I Ungulates. Leiden, New York, 1989 ISBN 9004088741
 * Jordi Augusti: Mammoths, Sabertooths and Hominids 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe, Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 2001042251
 * Claus Hilschmann: Fauna Band 8 Die Neotropische Region, Novaria-Verlag, 1971. ISBN 3-87991-048-0
 * Vratislav Mazak: Der Tiger. Nachdruck der 3. Auflage von 1983. Westarp Wissenschaften Hohenwarsleben, 2004 ISBN 3 894327596
 * Alan Turner & Mauricio Anton: Evolving Eden. An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004. ISBN 0-231-11944-5

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