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“I’m Jana Voscort, a Berlin based animal and portrait artist. I was born in Emsdetten, Germany in 1991 and grew up in a family of professional painters. Shaped by the creative environment, I focused on an artistic career very early. At the age of 12 I started with acrylic paint and developed my own colourful style over the years. Today I also work with oil colours and try to use many different mediums in my paintings.
With my art I want to capture unforgettable moments and the stories behind them. Whether sunrises, starry skies, immense nature, wild animals, or special people with whom you can just laugh and have endless conversations. It’s the little things that have the biggest impact.
And this is exactly why species conservation is so important to me. I would like to preserve the breathtaking beauty and diversity of nature and still enable our future generations to have magical encounters with wild animals.
I’m thankful to be part of this project and to help raising funds and spreading awareness of these topics.”
African Buffalo is listed as Near Threatened because the estimated and predicted decline over 3 generations (28 years) from 1999 to 2027 is very close to the threshold for Vulnerable under criterion A4 and under one scenario may have already crossed this threshold.
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et al. (2014) estimated the numbers of savanna buffalo at >513,000, representing an overall decline of 18% over 15 years, 1999-2014, when compared to the figures estimated by East (1999). Estimates for the three Savanna Buffalo subspecies were:
Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis >23,00 (-61% since East 1999);
S. c. brachyceros: >17,000 (-15%);
S. c. caffer: >473,000 (-14%). There are very few figures are available for Forest Buffalo, but it is suspected to be declining across its range due to forest loss and high rates of bushmeat extraction.
African Buffalo numbers were already declining in the 1990s (East 1999) so the rates of decline over the last 3 generations (28 years) must have been higher than the figures shown above, though it is difficult to estimate a precise figure because the rate of decline pre-1999 is unknown. Buffalo numbers are predicted to continue to decline because of ongoing poaching for meat, habitat conversion, and expansion of human and domestic livestock populations. Extrapolating the current estimated decline (1999-2014) into the future over 3 generations (1999-2027), and under three scenarios, produces the following figures:
- Savanna buffalo (S. c. caffer, S. c. aequinoctialis, S. c. brachyceros) – 1999: 627,000 individuals; 2014: 513,000 individuals; 2027: predicted 431,000 individuals = -31.2%.
- Savanna (as above) + forest buffalo S.c. nanus (assuming -15% for forest buffalo) – 1999: 687,000 individuals; 2014: 569,000 individuals; 2027: predicted 483,000 individuals = -29.7%.
- Savanna (as above) + forest buffalo (assuming no decline for forest buffalo) – 1999: 687,000 individuals; 2014: 573,000 individuals; 2027: predicted 490,000 individuals = -28.7%.
These rates of decline are very close to the threshold for Vulnerable and one of them just exceeds it. Moreover, these calculations assume a linear rate of decline, whereas the decline may be expected to accelerate, especially in view of the growing threats and projections for human population growth.
In the longer term, large, healthy populations of African Buffalo will need to persist in well protected national parks, reserves and hunting zones across Africa to prevent its status from deteriorating further.
SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST
