"Residents of the Forest" Camera Trap series - Amazon Dogs (new episode)

Hi all, we just released a new episode of the "Residents of the Forest" series showing some of the most striking and rare Amazonian forests animals captured by camera-traps, installed in the Extractive Reserve (Resex) Chico Mendes in Acre - Brazil.

This episode is about the Bush dog (Speothos venaticus) and the Short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis). In little more than two minutes, the video presents differences and similarities between the two canid species and shows unusual images, such as the Short-eared dog savoring a lizard, one of its main kinds of food.

The Short-eared dog, a unique species of the Amazon also known as Short-eared fox, is an animal that prefers a solitary lifestyle, although there are records of couples hunting together. The Bush dog is the only Brazilian canid that lives and hunts cooperatively.

The similarities reveal the sad side of the story of each species. Both dogs are classified as vulnerable by the Brazil Red Book of Threatened Species of Fauna, and "near threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). According to Felipe Spina Avino, a WWF-Brazil biologist and conservation analyst, monitoring is important to reveal information about species, but mainly to show the impact of human activities on forest life. “We know that the loss and degradation of the natural habitat caused by deforestation and by the increasing infrastructure constructions such as roads and hydropower plants are some of the main threats to the survival of these species. Other factors such as run-over accidents also put a lot of pressure on wild animals. In the specific case of these wild dogs, they can also catch diseases transmitted by domestic dogs that enter the forest,” explains Spina.

Altogether, the series will have 10 videos, one every month, depicting the results of an initiative that installed 20 camera traps within the reserve. The work is unprecedented and has been done in partnership with the community members of the extractive reserve, who have been monitoring the fauna present in the forest management areas of the conservation unit (UC).

The first video, released in April 2018, showed the first record in the Amazon forests of the Pacarana (Dinomys branickii), a rare species little-known by scientists (watch it at: https://vimeo.com/263869929). In September, the Tapir, the largest mammal in South America, was the species portrayed. (watch it at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aO8739Htk).

The series is a partnership between WWF-Brazil, the Cooperative of Community Forest Producers (Cooperfloresta) and the Association of Residents and Producers of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Xapuri (Amoprex). Furthermore, it has support from the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).

More information available on request: Felipe.avino@wwf.org.br

Esse artigo e o vídeo também estão disponiveis em português:

https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/noticias_meio_ambiente_e_natureza/?68...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOxLeSi3u78&t=1s

* NEW EPISODE *  Residents of the Forest Camera trap Video: Do you know two of the Amazonian anteater species?

 The question opens the new video of the Forest Residents series, the fourth episode of the series highlights the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla), both species listed on the IUCN global list of endangered animals.

Watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN70Ukq_4B0

Both species of anteaters are under pressure due to the occupation of large areas of Brazil for large-scale agriculture and livestock activities and deforestation that reduce their natural habitats. In addition, fires, predatory hunting, and trampling of these animals put the species at risk . These species originally occurred in all Brazilian states, but is currently at risk of extinction in all regions of the country. In general, the Amazon still houses a good amount of these animals, but in other regions of the country, as in the Atlantic Forest, it is considered virtually extinct. In fact, it is possibly extinct in the Pampa region.

We cannot neglect them, and we must seek to promote actions that help to preserve the anteaters in Brazil.The videos were released to matches with the celebration of World Tamandua Day 29 November #TamanduaDay  https://www.tamanduaday.org

Read more about the Anteaters, the project and access the previous episodes of the Forest Residents:

https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/english/?68642/Forest-Residents-present-two-species-of-anteaters-of-the-Amazon

*Material também disponível em Português:

https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/noticias_meio_ambiente_e_natureza/?68622/Moradores-da-floresta-apresenta-duas-espcies-de-tamandus-da-Amaznia

Check it out our new episode of the "Residents of the Forest"​ Camera Trap series about the Amazon Wild Pigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDBAl6OdZE
 

Collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) and white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari), two species of wild pigs in the Amazon, are the theme of the new video of the series Residents of the Forest. The education-oriented videos provide information about some of the most remarkable and rare species of the Amazonian forests using images captured by camera traps installed in the Extractive Reserve (Resex) Chico Mendes, in the state of Acre (AC)...

Read more about the project:

https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/english/?69482/Amazon-Wild-Pigs-are-featured-in-the-new-video-of-the-series-Residents-of-the-Forest