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Réda Behlouli

  • Biodiversity Journal, 13 (4): 0853-0863

    Abdenour Moussouni, Réda Behlouli, Salah Amokrane, Wafa Amoura & Abdelkrim Gharriche
    Monitoring of the Saharan cheetah and large fauna in the Ahaggar Cultural Park (southern Algeria)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2022.13.4.853.863

    ABSTRACT
    The Ahaggar Cultural Park (Tamanrasset, Algeria) contains an extremely valuable faunal diversity of which the Cheetah is the flagship element of universal value. This biodiversity, threatened by the combination of climatic and anthropogenic constraints, led the park office to set up a monitoring system based on a holistic approach under the postulate of inseparability “Culture - Nature”. The use of camera traps associated with the traditional ecological knowledge of the local population has confirmed the effective presence of 08 wild mammals, 06 of which are protected at the national level and 03 listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This work has also provided more information on the behavior of the Acinonyx jubatus hecki (Schreber, 1775) (Mammalia Felidae), critically endangered species which has not been observed in the Atakor for more than 15 years.