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The Railway and a Rare Colobus Monkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

W.A. Rodgers ,
K.M. Homewood  and
John B. Hall
W.A. Rodgers
Affiliation:
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
K.M. Homewood
Affiliation:
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
John B. Hall
Affiliation:
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Abstract

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The Tanzania-Zambia railway now bisects the Magombera Forest Reserve in Tanzania, and as a result the most viable surviving population of the rare endemic Iringa red colobus is seriously threatened. The railway has facilitated tree-felling, settlement and cultivation, and the colobus habitat is already seriously damaged. The authors conducted a survey of the forest in 1979, and recommended that the southern part, which has a viable colobus population, be included in the neighbouring Selous Game Reserve, thus giving that part the stronger protection of a game reserve, and that the local people be compensated by the release to them of a small area of the Selous.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , December 1980 , pp. 491 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1980

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