Large Herbivore - Species Database

"Species Overview Report for Eurasia"

An important working tool for LHF will be the a "Species Overview Report for Eurasia" initiated already in 2007 as a status report and to finalise in te form of a website with fact sheets of all species in the second part of 2010. Together with a concrete project portfolio serving as a vehicle for fundraising. The report will provide fact sheets for 45+/- species occurring in the area, such as taxonomy, species information, conservation status, projects, sources of information, etc.

Special attention will be given to recommendations concerning:

policy development,
legal protection,
spatial requirements,
area and species management,
communications,
concrete project interventions through the identifiaction of priority projects, gathered in a project portfolio,
giving room for fundraising and other challenging initiatives.

The LHF Network and many others, experts will be consulted and an "open source technique" will be provided via internet for commentary.

Sources used

In the preparation phase we made use of the LHF Status Report 2007 of the Large Herbivores of the Palaeartctic.

IUCN was so kind as to give LHF permission to make use of the content of the species descriptions on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species website.

The factsheets are being reviewed by an array of specialists and experts. For the description of the species and their habitats, often texts from Wikipedia has been used. The reviewers are mentioned under the chapter: Scientific Referees. To improve for a lager public the readibility, scientific references in the texts are restricted. Authors are only mentioned in the tables with the numbers of the species populations or in case of scientific discussions on certain themes. For further references we refer to the scientific background docementation in the IUCN-factsheets of the Red List Threatened Species.

For literature, specially used for the content of the factsheet, is referred to the chapter 'Sources'.

Photos are taken from our own stock, provided by the LHF network. For some thumbnails, pictures has been used found on internet.

Credits and rights

To illustrate the webpages (and for the sake of the protection of these animals) we have made use of photos of which it is not always clear who is the possessor of the credits and rights. If you feel yourself infringed in your rights or if you know the source of a photo, please let us know. Please accept our appologizes in advance for any inconvenience, and we are hoping you will support our work.