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I do Animal Conservation science at University, and i have an assignment titled 'Case study on the conservation of a named endangered species'
So basically pick any species/closely related group and talk about its conservation.
So as my interests are spiders and tarantulas, i had to make it difficult for myself and instead of picking something really easy like a panda, i've chosen the Poecilotheria family..
According to the red list, the Poecilotheria family is the only family that is vulnerable to critically endangered. These are P.formosa, hanumavilasumica, metallica, miranda, rufilata and striata.
The only sort of protection they have is they happen to live in nature reserves, one that is only found in a ruined religious temple that is protected because of their religion. They are also in the Indian wildlife protection act and listed under Cities appendix II.
Im wondering if anyone else is interested in the conservation of tarantulas, mainly the Poecilotheria family, And knows anything that i don't about the conservation status etc.
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On the P.formosa page on the red list it says this "Forests in these areas are of dry deciduous type with few patches of moist forests. No information is available on this species from the wild in last hundred years except for information on trade."
No information in the last hundred years?!
I need to hurry up finish uni and get my butt stuck into doing work on this species!
I really dislike the fact no work has been done on tarantulas or spiders, theres nothing out there about them!
---------- Post added at 03:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:40 PM ----------
haha just re-read them they get more and more rediculous!.. The P.formosa..
"Population information is not available. Although reported from three localities these reports are nearly a hundred years old. The locations are severely fragmented. No surveys have been conducted in these areas to establish the status, but considering the species to be closely related to other Poecilotheria species, their behaviours and ecology, we assume that the species has declined due to loss of habitat and degradation in quality of habitat in the Eastern Ghats."
They haven't got a clue about them, they just assume they are the same as the others..?
So basically pick any species/closely related group and talk about its conservation.
So as my interests are spiders and tarantulas, i had to make it difficult for myself and instead of picking something really easy like a panda, i've chosen the Poecilotheria family..
According to the red list, the Poecilotheria family is the only family that is vulnerable to critically endangered. These are P.formosa, hanumavilasumica, metallica, miranda, rufilata and striata.
The only sort of protection they have is they happen to live in nature reserves, one that is only found in a ruined religious temple that is protected because of their religion. They are also in the Indian wildlife protection act and listed under Cities appendix II.
Im wondering if anyone else is interested in the conservation of tarantulas, mainly the Poecilotheria family, And knows anything that i don't about the conservation status etc.
[edit]
On the P.formosa page on the red list it says this "Forests in these areas are of dry deciduous type with few patches of moist forests. No information is available on this species from the wild in last hundred years except for information on trade."
No information in the last hundred years?!
I need to hurry up finish uni and get my butt stuck into doing work on this species!
I really dislike the fact no work has been done on tarantulas or spiders, theres nothing out there about them!
---------- Post added at 03:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:40 PM ----------
haha just re-read them they get more and more rediculous!.. The P.formosa..
"Population information is not available. Although reported from three localities these reports are nearly a hundred years old. The locations are severely fragmented. No surveys have been conducted in these areas to establish the status, but considering the species to be closely related to other Poecilotheria species, their behaviours and ecology, we assume that the species has declined due to loss of habitat and degradation in quality of habitat in the Eastern Ghats."
They haven't got a clue about them, they just assume they are the same as the others..?
