Restoration and conservation for declined carnivore populations by economic exploitation in China

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22405003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Environmental impact assessment/Environmental policy
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: KANEKO Yayoi 東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60413134)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MASUDA Ryuichi 北海道大学, 大学院理学研究院, 教授 (80192748)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Keywords: 野生動物保護 / 動物生態学 / 食肉目 / 中国 / アジア / 密猟 / 自然保護区 / 遺伝的多様性

Research Abstract

The increasing economic exploitation of wildlife, in tandem with illegal poaching, has led to recent population declines amongst many carnivore species in China, creating a challenge for conservation and sustainability. The use of wild-caught carnivores for Chinese traditional medicine, and as a source of bushmeat is, however, an established part of traditional east-Asian culture. To investigate how best to resolve this paradox, between 2006 and 2011, we conducted field surveys and interviewed owners at farms, markets and bushmeat restaurants, in the Guanzhou region of southern China, focusing. We established which carnivore species were being traded, in what numbers, and for what specific purpose. Our further investigation in 2012-13 exposed the difficulties of enforcing species connected to very limited and out-dated ecological information (distribution, habitat use), and that illegal trade in animals was still taking place, contrary to an international ban.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The socio-spatial dynamics of the Japanese badger (Meles anakuma). 2014 (2014)
  • Author(s): Kaneko, Y., Kanda, E., Tashima, S., Masuda, R., Newman, C., Macdonald, D.W.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Mammalogy Volume: 95 (2) Pages: 290-300
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Notes on winter stomach contents of the stone marten (Martes foina) in the Balkan Montains, central Bulgaria. 2014. (2014)
  • Author(s): Hisano, M., Raichev, E.G., Peeva, S., Georgiev, D., Tsunoda, H., Masuda, R., Kaneko, Y.
  • Journal Title: ZooNotes Volume: 56 Pages: 1-6
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Balancing the benefits of ecotourism and development : The effects of visitor trail-use on mammals in a protected area in developing China (2013)
  • Author(s): Zhou, Y., Buesching, C.D., Newman, C., Kaneko, Y., Xie Z., Macdonald, D.W.
  • Journal Title: Biological Conservation Volume: 165 Pages: 18-24
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Winter diet of the stone marten (Marte sfoina) in centaral Bulgaria (2013)
  • Author(s): Hisano, M., Raichev, E.G., Tsunoda, H., Masuda, R., Kaneko, Y.
  • Journal Title: Mammal Study Volume: 38 Pages: 293-298
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Molecular phylogeography and haplogrouping of the brown bear (Ursusarctos), based on analyses of the complete mitochondrial DNA sequences (2013)
  • Author(s): Hirata, D., Mano, T., Abramov, A.V., Baryshnikov, G. F., Kosintsev, P., Vorobiev, A., Raichev, E., Tsunoda, H., Kaneko, Y., Murata, K., Fukui, D., Masuda, R.
  • Journal Title: Molecular Biology and Evolution Volume: 30 Pages: 1644-1652
  • DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst077
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The reliance of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) on anthropogenic foods in winter, in central Bulgaria (2013)
  • Author(s): Raichev, E., Tsunoda, H., Newman, C., Masuda, R., Georgiev, D. M., Kaneko, Y.
  • Journal Title: Mammal Study Volume: 38 Pages: 19-27
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Comparative molecular phylogeny and evolution between sex chromosome DNA sequences in the family Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) (2012)
  • Author(s): Tsubouchi, A., Fukui, D., Ueda, M., Okuyama, E., Toyoshima, S., Takami, K., Tsujimoto, T., Uraguchi, U., Raichev, E., Kaneko, Y., Tsunoda, H.,Masuda, R.
  • Journal Title: Zoological Science Volume: 29 Pages: 151-161
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Preliminary study on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA variation of the stone marten Martes foina in Bulgaria (2012)
  • Author(s): Nagai, T. Raichev, E. G., Tsunoda, H., Kaneko, Y., Masuda., R.
  • Journal Title: Mammal Study Volume: 37 Pages: 353-358
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Genetic population structures of the masked palm civet Paguma larvata (Viverridae, Carnivora) in Japan and Taiwan, revealed from analysis of newly developed compound microsatellites (2012)
  • Author(s): Inoue, T., Kaneko, Y., Yamazaki, K., Anezaki, T., Yachimori, S., Ochiai, K., Lin, L., Pei, K.J. Chen, Y., Chang, S., Masuda, R.
  • Journal Title: Conservation Genetics Volume: 13 Pages: 1095-1107
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Biogeographical patterns in the diet of genus Martes across the Holarctic region : factors affecting trophic diversity (2011)
  • Author(s): Zhou, Y., Newman, C., Buesching, C. D., Zalewski, A., Kaneko, Y., Macdonald, D. W., Xie, Z. Q.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Biogeography Volume: 38 Pages: 137-147
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02396.x
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Phylogeographicsympatry and isolation of the Eurasian badgers (Meles, Mustelidae, Carnivora): implication for an alternative analysis using maternally as well as paternally inherited genes (2011)
  • Author(s): Tashima, S., Kaneko, Y., Anezaki, T., Baba, M., Yachimori, S., Abramov, A. V., Saveljev, A. P., and Masuda, R.
  • Journal Title: Zoological Science Volume: 28(4) Pages: 293-303
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Diet of an opportunistically frugivorous carnivore, Martes flavigula, in subtropical forest (2011)
  • Author(s): Zhou, Y. B., Newman, C., Buesching, C. D., Zalewski, A., Kaneko, Y. Macdonald, D.W, Xie, Z.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Mammalogy Volume: 92(3) Pages: 611-619
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Contrasting sociality in two widespread, generalist, mustelid genera, Meles and Martes (2011)
  • Author(s): Newman, C., Zhou, Y., Buesching, C. D., Kaneko, Y., Macdonald, D.W.
  • Journal Title: Mammal Study Volume: 36 Pages: 169-188
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Ranging and activity patterns of the group-living ferret badger Melogale moschata in central China (2010)
  • Author(s): Zhang, L., Zhou Y., Newman, C., Kaneko, Y., Pingping, J., Ding, P.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Mammalogy Volume: 91 Pages: 101-108
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] ブルガリア中央部におけるアカギツネの食性 (2013)
  • Author(s): 角田裕志・E.G. Raichev・増田隆一・金子弥生
  • Organizer: 日本哺乳類学会2013年度大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山理科大学 (ポスター発表)
  • Year and Date: 20130907-10
• [Presentation] Is the hog badger specialist or generalist? Seasonal change of food habits in central China (2013)
  • Author(s): Zhou, Y., Kaneko, Y., Newman, C., Buesching, C., Macdonald, D.W.
  • Organizer: 11^<th> International Mammalogical Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Queen's University, Belfast, UK. (口頭発表)
  • Year and Date: 20130811-16
• [Presentation] Sexual differences on winter diet of the stone marten (Martes foina) in central Bulgaria (2013)
  • Author(s): Hisano, M., Raichev, E.G., Tsunoda, H., Masuda, R., Kaneko, Y.
  • Organizer: 11^<th> International Mammalogical Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Queen's University, Belfast, UK. (ポスター発表)
  • Year and Date: 20130811-16
• [Presentation] Economic exploitation of badgers in Japan, southern China, and South Korea (2013)
  • Author(s): Kaneko, Y., Zhou, Y., Han, S., Chen, J., Zeng, Y., Zhang, M., Lo, Y., Lau, M., Newman, C., Buesching, C., Macdonald, D. W.
  • Organizer: Wild Musteloid Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Oxford, UK. (口頭発表)
  • Year and Date: 20130319-22
• [Presentation] Wild mammals trade relationship between a border Nature Reserve and a metropolitan city in Southern China (2013)
  • Author(s): Zeng, Y.
  • Organizer: PANTHERA-CARNECCO joint mini-symposium, WildCRU
  • Place of Presentation: University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney house, Abingdon, UK. (口頭発表)
  • Year and Date: 2013-08-21
• [Presentation] 中国南部の国境自然保護区と大都市における野生哺乳類の経済的利用状況 (2012)
  • Author(s): 曾英子・周友兵・張明霞・陳金平・金子弥生
  • Organizer: 日本哺乳類学会2012年度大会
  • Place of Presentation: 麻布大学 (ポスター発表)
  • Year and Date: 20120920-23