Argudin-Violante, Cristina

Arias, Melissa

Arisi, Barbara M

Bordones, Liliana Jauregui

Cummings, Anthony R

Daly, Lewis

Guaita, Lucia

Marchini, Silvio

Shepard, Glenn H

Süssekind, Felipe

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sighting, an individual of c.  cm total length, was on April under the pier on Bitxe Rotxa beach, at . at a depth of–m, by PNS. The third sightingwas of an individual of, cm total length, at c. . on  January , also at BitxeRotxa beach. The individual was found alive on the sandand was returned to the water by local people and tourists.This benthic coastal species, with no known pelagic phase inits life cycle, would have had to cross the ocean to reach CaboVerde, which is c.  km from Senegal.We suspect this speciescan undertake long pelagic migrations, similarly to that of thegreat torpedo Tetronarce nobiliana. The conservation status ofelasmobranchs in the waters of Cabo Verde is poorly known,and little attention has been devoted to electric rays becausethey are discarded as bycatch, with no commercial value.Research is required, including tagging, to improve knowledgeof their status and distribution, and of any threats. We recom-mend an examination of a T. mackayana specimen from CaboVerde, and surveys for this species around Sal and BoavistaIslands as they share the same continental shelf as Maio, andsimilar habitat conditions and distance to the African continent.We thank Rui Freitas, Peter Psomadakis and the EAF-Nansen Programme of FAO for their support, insight andexpertise.SARA S. RATÃO ( orcid.org/0000-0002-8464-8271, sara.ratao@fmb-maio.org) and CLAIRE M. SYDEMAN Fundação MaioBiodiversidade, Cidade do Porto Inglês, Maio Island, CaboVerde. PÉRICLES NEVES SILVA ( orcid.org/0000-0002-8133-5384)Instituto do mar, Mindelo, Cabo Verde. BERNARD SÉRET ( orcid.org/0000-0003-2029-8740) Ichtyo-Consult, Igny, FranceThis is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution licence CC BY 4.0.Multidisciplinary team highlights the importance ofIndigenous and local communities for jaguarconservationOn – October , IUCN Netherlands convened thepanel The Power of the Jaguar at the Royal AnthropologicalInstitute’s Anthropology and Conservation conference,bringing together anthropologists, biologists, filmmakersand conservationists from across the range of the jaguarPanthera onca to enhance understanding of the role this spe-cies plays in human consciousness and existence. In thisunique collaboration, nine speakers shared their approachesfor understanding and improving relationships betweenpeople and jaguars, based on field experiences with cattleranching in the Brazilian Pantanal, illegal trafficking inBolivia, human–jaguar conflict and ecotourism in Guyanaand Suriname, cultural meanings and cosmologies of In-digenous groups in Amazonia, and approaches for systemictransformations benefiting jaguars and people in Venezuelaand Mexico. The speakers illustrated the ways in whichIndigenous and local communities are already engagedin jaguar protection, and emphasized the importance ofstrengthening such collaborations. They also examined howconservation strategies should domore to promote knowledgeexchange between the social and natural sciences. The paneldiscussed two fundamental questions: what are the barriersto effective collaboration, and how have practitioners over-come these to make jaguar research and conservation aninterdisciplinary/transdisciplinary pursuit?The panel noted that jaguar conservationists must beopen to alternative approaches beyond traditional conserva-tion science, especially where local forms of environmentalknowledge prevail, and that jaguars are threatened by habitatloss and retaliatory killing motivated by fear, material losses,economic motivations and religion. This panel is the begin-ning of a wider process of exchange and engagement amongscholars and practitioners. Practitioners working to protectjaguars must learn from each other as well as from Indigenousand local peoples, whose imagination, stories, knowledge andexperiences reflect important lessons this species has taughthumanity. This paradigm shift will benefit the jaguar andthe diverse peoples with whom it shares its habitat.Recordings of the Panel’s proceedings are available atyoutube.com/watch?v=EFFGggFTOXY and youtube.com/watch?v=jUAeeknMKjU.The West African torpedo Torpedo mackayana photographed off Bitxe Rotxa beach, Porto Inglês, Maio Island, in March (left; Photo: Claire M. Sydeman), April  (middle; frame snapshot from a video: Péricles Neves Silva) and in January (right; frame snapshot from a video: Jair Rocha).Conservation news 173Oryx, 2022, 56(2), 169–175 © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605321001848https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605321001848Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. UCL, Institute of Education, on 08 Mar 2022 at 16:00:31, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available atSILVIO MARCHINI ( orcid.org/0000-0002-8184-1631, silvio.marchini@usp.br) University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SãoPaulo, Brazil. ANTHONY R. CUMMINGS Geospatial InformationSciences, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences,University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA. BARBARA M. ARISI( orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-9636) Vrije UniversiteitAmsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. CRISTINA ARGUDIN-VIOLANTE University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. FELIPESÜSSEKIND ( orcid.org/0000-0002-9899-1230) PontifíciaUniversidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.GLENN H. SHEPARD JR ( orcid.org/0000-0003-3195-8230) HumanSciences Division, Goeldi Museum, Belém, Brazil. LEWIS DALY( orcid.org/0000-0002-0542-9397) University College London,London, UK. LILIANA JAUREGUI BORDONES ( orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-8696) and LUCIA GUAITA ( orcid.org/0000-0002-9814-9529)IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands. MELISSA ARIAS ( orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-1540)Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Oxford, UKThis is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution licence CC BY 4.0.Developments in conserving the Javan greenmagpie Cissa thalassinaIn Indonesia the heavily ingrained andwidespread tradition ofkeeping caged birds, the majority of which are wild-caught,has pushed many species to the brink of extinction. Despitea brief halt of the illegal bird trade during COVID- restric-tions, overall the trade has not declined, with the IndonesiaMinistry of Cooperation and Small & Medium Enterprisesreporting a turnover of IDR . trillion (c. USD  million)in . Alongside offline trade, we have observed that theuse of social media and e-commerce sites for illegal birdtrade increased during the pandemic.One species affected by poaching and illegal trade inIndonesia is the Javan green magpie Cissa thalassina,which has undergone severe population declines (vanBalen et al., , Bird Conservation International, ,–). This endemic corvid is restricted to the sub-montane forests of West and Central Java and is categorizedas Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. It has areputation as a high quality master bird: its ability tomimic is used to teach songbird species, used as contestantsin singing competitions, a wide repertoire of songs.In August , Cikananga Wildlife Centre (YayasanCikananga Konservasi Terpadu) initiated a multidisci-plinary conservation programme for the Javan green mag-pie in collaboration with Chester Zoo and ManchesterMetropolitan University, with funding from the EuropeanAssociation of Zoos and Aquaria Silent Forest Campaign.The first stages of this project comprise a long-term surveyof Javan green magpie trade on social media and in physicalbird markets, to identify suitable habitats for potential insitu conservation programmes and to engage with localcommunities in areas where the species may still exist.Using both social and ecological science techniques, weaim to understand more about this elusive species and thetrade that threatens it. Initial findings, alongside those ofrecent surveys in the Javan Mountains, indicate this speciesis now rare both in the wild and in trade.The long-term aim of this project is to protect remainingviable habitat and improve the wild status of the Javan greenmagpie through measures such as protection of existing wildpopulations, reinforcement of dwindling populations and re-introductions from conservation breeding programmes intogood habitat. To be successful, all of these methods will needto involve local communities. Key aspects of this projectwill be creating alternative livelihoods and developing pridecampaigns, to mitigate the threat of poaching. This projectis run alongside Cikananga Wildlife Centre’s CikanangaConservation Breeding Centre, which manages the largest exsitu population of the Javan green magpie, maintaining andmaximizing genetic diversity through conservation breeding.MEIDI YANTO ( orcid.org/0000-0001-9170-5804),BERTIE H. FERNS ( orcid.org/0000-0003-4536-2032, bertie.ferns@gmail.com), INGE H.M. TIELEN ( orcid.org/0000-0003-1919-0505) and REŞIT SÖZER Yayasan Cikananga KonservasiTerpadu, Cikananga Wildlife Center, Sukabumi,West Java, IndonesiaThis is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution licence CC BY ND 4.0.Land purchase and forest restoration to conservethe Endangered red panda in NepalThe population of the Endangered red panda Ailurus ful-gens has been reduced by half in less than  decades,predominantly as a result of habitat loss, degradation andfragmentation. The  National Survey of Red Pandasin Nepal found that the species’ habitat was fragmentedinto.  small forest patches, primarily as a result of con-version of forest to farmland and settlements, unsustainablelivestock grazing and resource extraction, and infrastructuredevelopment. To counter this problem, the Red PandaNetwork works with local communities by purchasing pri-vate land to restore red panda habitat and improve habitatquality and connectivity in the Panchthar–Ilam–Taplejungregion in the Kangchenjunga landscape, which has trans-boundary conservation significance in the eastern Himalayas.Nearly % of the Panchthar–Ilam–Taplejung region hassuitable habitat for red pandas but % is unprotected,national forest or private lands.In , the Red Panda Network initiated habitat restor-ation initiatives with small-scale reforestation as a part of itscommunity-based red panda conservation programme.This initiative developed into a flagship campaign knownas Plant A Red Panda Home in , which reforests corehabitat and connects fragmented forest through land pur-chase and tree planting to create a wildlife corridor to174 Conservation newsOryx, 2022, 56(2), 169–175 © The Author(s), 2022. 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