The LARGE HERBIVORES,Eurasian Support Network

Towards a renewed in-situ and ex-situ cooperation.

On the 1st of July 2010 the Large Herbivore Foundation (LHF) joined the ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation. ECNC is an international expertise centre for biodiversity and sustainable development, with its headquarters in Tilburg, the Netherlands. ECNC has 20 staff located in Tilburg and one staff member based in the European Topic Centre for Biological Diversity in Paris. In order to join forces, ECNC and the Coastal and Marine Union (EUCC) created the ECNC Group last year, consisting of a “blue” and a “green” pillar.

LHF is now the “LARGE HERBIVORES Eurasian Support Network”

The foundation LHF is closed, but the LHF mission continues in the new ECNC Programmes as part of the green pillar of the ECNC Group. LHF’s Network has found its new place in the independently functioning ECNC “LARGE HERBIVORES Eurasian Support Network”, of which Hans Kampf is its first director. 

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The working area of the Large Herbivore Foundation

View LHF working area - 2010 in a larger map

During the start of LHF its working area was designed as the Eurasian Palaearctic Ecoregion, including China and the Koreas and excluding Northern Africa. 

After ample discussion we have chosen now for a working area on two levels of priority: the green coloured map shows our priority area, the yellow coloured map (Northern China, Tibet) shows an important, but for now too complex area. Because of capacity we consider this area for this moment as less opportune. We included the region south of the Caspian Sea because of its importance for the connectivity between Turkey and Turkmenistan.

Based on this map we could make a selection of the large herbivore species (34), occurring in this region; see the list and description of the selected species. The species, indicated with a thumbnail are already - though still incomplete - described and published. We expect to improve the descriptions, and to identify the problems, challenges and chances, leading to concrete project ideas and action, based on input from the field.

A first start has been made with the description of the Hotspots, where you can see the interaction with the species, occurring in these landscapes. We will continue with the identification of the large ecosystems (both wilderness and vast human influenced landscapes), but will also try to find the prospective examples of nature development areas.  The relation Species - Landscapes is of high relevance to mitigate the effects of climate change: large well connected (not-fragmented) areas.

Your comments and ideas are most welcome.

Don't hesitate to visit the newspage

The LHF News page will be developed to a source of developments and information on the large mammals in Eurasia. Please don't hesitate to send us your news.

LHF is looking for students, apprentices, volunteers

LHF is looking for a few volunteers or apprentices who are interested in learning more about the large herbivore (mammal) species in Eurasia. We are developing a practical website with a lot of information about these species leading to concrete projects and a project portfolio to protect and restore their populations in the field.

http://www.largeherbivore.org/saiga-antelope/

Please don't hesitate to reply via the Large Herbivore Contact page.

Underway to ECNC - LHF

The 1st of January 2010 ECNC and the Large Herbivore Foundation have made a first start for working closely together. One of the changes is the change in the post address, please see the heading. The LHF e-mail adresses are still the same. It is one of the activities to keep the interest in the large herbivores in Eurasia on the agenda.

For more information, please visit ECNCs website.

Read further about the relation ECNC - LHF.