The recent camera-trap survey snapped this picture of a banded civet prowling the forest floor. Listed at "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List, the catlike mammal is at particular risk due to rapid habitat loss across Southeast Asia.
Photograph courtesy Andreas Wilting
"When the logging intensity is too high, the banded civet will be one of the first species that suffers," survey leader Wilting said. The species' presence "might be a very good indicator for less disturbed forests."
The new mammal survey findings appear in the current issue of Small Carnivore Conservation, the journal of IUCN's Small Carnivore Specialist Group.
The new mammal survey findings appear in the current issue of Small Carnivore Conservation, the journal of IUCN's Small Carnivore Specialist Group.
Source : National Geographic Daily News
Published July 26, 2010
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