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White lipped peccary IUCN status change from Near Threatened to Vulnerable
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Ana Garrido
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| July 30, 2013
The population decline of the White-lipped Peccary (
Tayassu pecari
) has recently steepened, resulting in this previously Near Threatened species being reassessed asVulnerable. The threats causing this decline are habitat loss, illegal hunting, competition with livestock, and epidemics, and it is even disappearing from areas of pristine habitat in the Amazon rainforest. It is uncertain whether the existing network of reserves is adequate to allow the formation of large herds of this species, or that there is sufficient connectivity between reserves to permit recovery when populations crash due to disease epidemics or other reasons. Photo ©
Ana Luzia de Souza Teixeira Cunha
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