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Spring 2019 02 ISSN 1027-2992 CATnewsN° 69 | Spring 2019 02 CATnews is the newsletter of the Cat Specialist Group, Editors: Christine & Urs Breitenmoser a component of the Species Survival Commission SSC of the Co�chairs IUCN/SSC International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It is pu���� Cat Specialist Group lished twice a year, and is availa�le to mem�ers and the Friends of KORA, Thunstrasse 31, 3074 Muri, the Cat Group. Switzerland Tel ++41(31) 951 90 20 For joining the Friends of the Cat Group please contact Fax ++41(31) 951 90 40 Christine Breitenmoser at [email protected] <urs.�[email protected]�e.ch> <ch.�[email protected]> Original contri�utions and short notes a�out wild cats are welcome Send contributions and observations to Associate Editors: Keith Richmond [email protected]. Brian Bertram Maximilian Allen Guidelines for authors are availa�le at www.catsg.org/catnews Juan Reppucci CATnews is produced with financial assistance from the Friends of the Cat Group. Design: �ar�ara sur�er, werk’sdesign gm�h Layout: Ta�ea Lanz und Christine Breitenmoser Cover Photo: Fishing cat, Howrah District, Print: Stämpfli Pu�likationen AG, Bern, Switzerland West Bengal, India Photo Shantanu Prasad ISSN 1027-2992 © IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group The designation of the geographical entities in this pu�lication, and the representation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the IUCN concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or �oundaries. CATnews 69 Spring 2019 original contribution MARK V. PESTOV1, ZHASKAIRAT E. NURMUKHAMBETOV2, AKTAN T. MUKHASHOV2, VLADI- In autumn 2018, during the implementation MIR A. TERENTYEV AND TATJANA ROSEN4 of the project on supplemental feeding of vultures in the Ustyurt State Nature Reserve First camera trap record of Per- (supported �y Rufford Small Grants Founda� tion; Pestov et al. 2017), camera traps for sian leopard in Ustyurt State the first time registered the presence of a Nature Reserve, Kazakhstan Per�sian leopard in Kazakhstan. Study Area In Autumn 2018, a live Persian leopard Panthera pardus saxicolor was record- USNR was esta�lished in 1984 in Kazakh� ed for the first time on a camera trap on the territory of the Ustyurt State Nature stan. Its o�jective is the conservation of the Reserve USNR (Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan). This is the fourth confirmed unique natural and archaeological features, case of the appearance of a leopard in Kazakhstan, with three occasions in the flora and fauna of a unique desert ecosys� Mangystau region and one occasion in Zhambyl region. Likely leopards come to tem. The reserve is located in the Karakiya Kazakhstan from neighbouring Turkmenistan. The article contains recommenda- province of the Mangystau region in Kazak� tions on further studies to identify whether other individuals are present in the hstan. USNR encompasses 2,233.42 km2. area, the introduction of the leopard into the Red Book of Kazakhstan and on the The reserve includes the southern part of expansion of the territory of the Ustyurt State Nature Reserve and its protection the Western chink of the Ustyurt, a narrow zone in order to preserve the entire desert ecosystem, including the Persian le- strip of the plateau adjacent to it, the eas� opard. tern part of the Karyn�Zharyk Kenderli�sor depression and fragments of the sandy The Persian leopard was assessed as Endan� nistan and western Pakistan (Khorozyan et massif Karyn�Zharyk, as well as the Kara� gered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened al. 2008). maya mountain. Climatically, the region Species in 2008 (Khorozyan et al. 2006, According to experts, until the end of the where the reserve is located �elongs to the 2008), given an estimated 800–1,000 indi� 20th century, the leopard had never �een continental south Turan desert zone (Plak� viduals remaining. Persian leopards were o�served in Kazakhstan (Heptner & Sludsky hov 2006). once distri�uted across the whole Caucasus 1972, Sludsky et al. 1982). Only in the last In addition to the Persian leopard, the re� 14 region, the Iranian and Anatolian Plateaus two decades, three relia�le facts of illegal serve is home to several mammal species, and the southern parts of Central Asia. A killing of this species �ecame known: the including Urial sheep Ovis orientalis vignei, rapid decline of leopard range and num�ers first incident occurred in 2000 in Zham�yl re� goitered gazelle Gazella subgutturosa, occurred due to hunting, persecution, trap� gion (Shakula 2004); and two more leopards wolf Canis lupus, fox Vulpes vulpes, Asia� ping, poisoning, ha�itat destruction and loss were killed in Mangystau region in 2007 and tic wildcat Felis lybica and caracal Caracal of prey in the 18th and 19th centuries. By the 2015 (Plakhov et al. 2016; Fig. 1). caracal. In the course of inventory of ungu� mid�20th century leopards had disappeared Despite these o�servations, the Persian le� lates in the reserve conducted in autumn from large parts of their range, which histo� opard has never �een considered an extant 2018, 548 urials and 360 goitered gazelles rically included Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Ar� species in Kazakhstan and therefore is not were counted. The tolai hare Lepus tolai, menia, Azer�aijan, Iran, Iraq, Le�anon, Syria, protected under the Red Book of Kazakh� the yellow squirrel Spermophilus fulvus Afghanistan, Uz�ekistan, Tajikistan, Turkme� stan. and the chukar partridge Alectoris chukar are also common. Finally, according to ol� der literature (Plahov 2006), the sand cat Felis margarita and Pallas’s cat Otocolobus manul, are also considered to �e present �ut have not �een recorded since the es� ta�lishment of USNR. Methods Between April and Decem�er 2018, reserve personal have monitored vultures �y means of camera traps at three sites �aited with slaughterhouse �y�products. Each site was equipped with two camera traps installed at a distance of 3 to 4 m from each other. Results Fig. 1. Illegally trapped and killed Persian leopard in the Karakiyan province, Mangy- In the evening of 29 Septem�er 2018, stau region in May 2015, 90 km from the place where Persian leopard was captured in for close to 120 seconds, from 22:57 h to the reserve, source: https://tengrinews.kz/events/stali-izvestnyi-podrobnosti-ubiystva- 22:59 h, the Persian leopard was captured leoparda-mangistauskoy-274733/ for the first time �y a camera trap while CATnews 69 Spring 2019 first camera trap record of Persian leopard in Ustyurt SR Fig. 2. Habitat of the Persian leopard in the Ustyurt State Nature Reserve (Photo by M. Pestov). arriving at the �ait site, sniffing and then Ustyurt Plateau and includes the following and remains of dead leopards were found in leaving. This camera trap site was located plants: Anabasis eriopoda, A. brachiata, Na- the Bolshoi Balkan range in 2017 (K. Khoja� on the rocky edge of the cliff of the Ustyurt nophyton erinaceum, Atraphaxis replicata; muradov and A. Potaeva, pers. comm.). The Plateau (Fig. 2) and stands at 175 m. Convolvulus fruticosus; Limonium suffruti- distance from USNR to the Bolshoi Balkhan On 11 Novem�er 2018, at 6:57 over 60 sec� cosum, Zygophyllum ovigerum, Reaumuria range is a�out 370 km. In 1989, some le� onds, two camera traps recorded again a fruticosa and Artemisia kemrudica. opard tracks were also spotted in the Ku� leopard at the same location (Fig. 3). We lansai gorge at the Kara�Bogaz�Gol �ay in �elieve this is the same animal �ut the poor Discussion north�western Turkmenistan (Lukarevsky quality of the photographs taken in Septem� As of this writing, the Persian leopard has 2001). This site is approximately 170 km �er unfortunately does not definitely con� �een recorded on the territory of Kazakh� south of the o�servation in USNR. firm so. stan on four occasions, in three instances Three camera trap records over a period For the third time, the same Persian leopard in the Mangystau region (Fig. 5). In addi� of 70 days in the USNR allow us to hope was recorded (Fig. 4) on the second camera tion, during social surveys in the region, that the leopard will remain in the area. 15 trap site on 7 Decem�er 2018, in the day� we o�tained anecdotal reports of several Ha�itat conditions are close to optimal: this time for 5 minutes (from 16 hours 27 min� leopard encounters over the past two de� area has little human distur�ance, its relief utes to 16 hours 31 minutes). This site is cades. However, this information cannot �e provides good cover and within a radius of also located on the stony edge of the cliff verified. several kilometers, there are springs with of the Ustyurt plateau. The leopard sniffed Leopards are likely to periodically migrate reed �eds. the remaining camel �ones and one of the from neigh�ouring Turkmenistan, where The appearance of the leopard in Man� camera traps, and then laid down next to 80–100 of them are still found (Geptner & gystau provides additional arguments in the �ones for a�out 60 seconds. The leo� Sludsky 1972, Lukarevsky 2001, Red Book favour for adopting measures to preserve pard approached this site from the previous of Turkmenistan 2011, K. Khojamuradov, all the �iological and landscape diversity one. The distance �etween them is a�out pers. comm. 2018). The distance from the of the Ustyurt Plateau. When USNR was 18.6 km in a straight line. Ustyurt reserve to the western Kopetdag in esta�lished, the scientists’ opinion was not The vegetation at �oth locations where southern Turkmenistan, where the leopard fully taken into consideration and �ecause the leopard was recorded is typical for the lives at present, is at least 600 km.
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