May 6, 2021
A small herd of wildebeest walk across the Masai Mara Plains in Kenya at sunset. Matthew Kauffman, who directs the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at UW, is the lead author of a paper, titled “Mapping Out a Future for Ungulate Migrations,” that will appear in the May 7 issue of Science. An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, a U.N. treaty. (Munir Virani Photo)
An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists, including a few from the University of Wyoming, has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a United Nations treaty.
Credit: Munir Virani
May 6, 2021 An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN treaty.
The detailed maps of the seasonal movements of herds worldwide will help governments, indigenous people and local communities, planners and wildlife managers identify current and future threats to migrations, and advance conservation measures to sustain them in the face of an expanding human footprint.
The Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration (GIUM) was launched with the publication of a commentary, titled Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, in the May 7 issue of the journal