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DOI	10.1017/S0959270921000307
	Pursuit of 'sustainable' development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa
	Oppel, Steffen; Ruffo, Alazar Daka; Bakari, Samuel; Tesfaye, Million; Mengistu, Solomon; Wondafrash, Mengistu; Endris, Ahmed; Pourchier, Cloe; Ngari, Alex; Arkumarev, Volen; Nikolov, Stoyan C.
通讯作者	Oppel, S (corresponding author)，RSPB Ctr Conservat Sci, David Attenborough Bldg,Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, England.
来源期刊	BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	0959-2709
EISSN	1474-0001
出版年	2021-07
英文摘要	The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve livelihoods and maintain functioning ecosystems, and include the provision of electricity and the prevention of desertification. We show that the pursuit of those two goals can lead to developments that put critical ecosystem functions at risk. Vultures are scavengers that provide sanitary ecosystem services, but their populations across Africa are declining due to poisoning, electrocution, and collision with power infrastructure. The extent to which the pursuit of sustainable development threatens vultures in Africa is unclear. We surveyed 227 km of powerlines in Ethiopia, which revealed bird mortality (0.15 vulture carcasses / km) at power infrastructure constructed under a National Electrification Programme to provide universal electricity access by 2025. We also interviewed 190 local pastoralists in 10 areas about livelihood challenges, which revealed that the bush Prosopis juliflora, which was originally introduced to prevent desertification but then invaded north-eastern Ethiopia, increased livestock predation and motivated the use of poison to control predators. Actions to increase universal access to electricity and to reduce desertification therefore have undesired side-effects that increase vulture mortality through electrocution and poisoning. To avoid negatively affecting local vulture populations and the services they provide, we urge governments to use infrastructure designs that minimise the risk of electrocution and assist pastoralists to protect their livestock and reduce the risk of poisoning to vultures and other wildlife.
英文关键词	electrocution collision desertification poisoning human-wildlife conflict Ethiopia
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000743376100001
WOS关键词	PROSOPIS-JULIFLORA ; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; PROTECT LIVESTOCK ; AFAR REGION ; MORTALITY ; ETHIOPIA ; INVASION ; CARCASS ; CONSERVATION ; POPULATION
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ornithology
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/377024
作者单位	[Oppel, Steffen] RSPB Ctr Conservat Sci, David Attenborough Bldg,Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, England; [Ruffo, Alazar Daka; Tesfaye, Million; Mengistu, Solomon; Wondafrash, Mengistu] Ethiopian Wildlife & Nat Hist Soc, POB 13303, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; [Ruffo, Alazar Daka] Addis Ababa Univ, Coll Nat & Computat Sci, Dept Zool Sci, POB 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; [Bakari, Samuel; Ngari, Alex] BirdLife Int, Africa Partnership Secretariat, Point Bldg,Mahiga Mairu Ave, Nairobi, Kenya; [Mengistu, Solomon] Dilla Univ, Coll Nat & Computat Sci, Dept Biol, POB 419, Dilla, Ethiopia; [Endris, Ahmed] Ethiopian Wildlife Conservat Author, POB 386, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; [Pourchier, Cloe] Sahara Conservat Fund, BP 981, Niamey, Niger; [Arkumarev, Volen; Nikolov, Stoyan C.] Bulgarian Soc Protect Birds, BirdLife Bulgaria, Yavorov Complex,Bl 71,Vh 4,POB 50, Sofia 1111, Bulgaria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Oppel, Steffen,Ruffo, Alazar Daka,Bakari, Samuel,et al. Pursuit of 'sustainable' development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa[J],2021.
APA	Oppel, Steffen.,Ruffo, Alazar Daka.,Bakari, Samuel.,Tesfaye, Million.,Mengistu, Solomon.,...&Nikolov, Stoyan C..(2021).Pursuit of 'sustainable' development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa.BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL.
MLA	Oppel, Steffen,et al."Pursuit of 'sustainable' development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa".BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (2021).