Facing the 2013 Gold Rush: A Population Viability Analysis for the Endangered White-Lipped Peccary (Tayassu pecari) in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52868#.VKtGi8nQrzE Author(s) Christian J. Rivera Affiliation(s) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA . ABSTRACT The white-lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari ) is facing range-wide declines throughout the Neotropics. It has been eliminated from about 89% of its historical range in Costa Rica. Corcovado National Park, in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, is the last remaining stronghold for the white-lipped peccary in the country. In 2013, the Park experienced a sudden gold rush that brought with it a wave of 250 miners and vigorous hunting pressures on the population. Given that the spe...