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Rozylowicz, L., Pătroescu, M., & Manolache, S. , Protecting eastern hermann’s tortoise in romania: Past, present and perspectives. Unpublished paper presented at Atelier international sur la gestion et la restauration des populations et habitats de la Tortue d’Hermann / International workshop on the management and restoration of Hermann’s tortoise populations and habitats.
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Categories: General Keywords: Habitat - habitat, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Südosteuropa - South-Eastern Europe, Testudinidae, Testudo hermanni Creators: Manolache, Pătroescu, Rozylowicz Collection: Atelier international sur la gestion et la restauration des populations et habitats de la Tortue d’Hermann / International workshop on the management and restoration of Hermann’s tortoise populations and habitats |
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Testudo hermanni Testudinidae The Eastern Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) inhabits an area of approximately 700 km2 in SW Romania. The Romania’s population was assessed as having an endangered status in Romania (EN B1ab (i,ii,iii,v)). The main threats for the Hermann’s tortoise are housing and urban area encroachment, tourism and recreation areas, annual and perennial non-timber crops, mining and quarrying, energy production and mining, recreational activities, fire frequency/intensity increase, abandonment of grasslands, droughts, extreme temperatures, climate change and severe weather. Starting in 2001, we developed a range scale project aiming of protecting the Eastern Hermann’s tortoise in Romania. The main activities were financed through an LIFE Nature project (i.e., LIFE00 NAT/RO/7171), and includes: intensive captive breeding aiming at increasing the local population, ecological studies of habitats and population, modeling habitat selection at local scale, evaluation of threats distribution, developing an long term conservation plan, developing intensive educational activities, creating a field station for Eastern Hermann’s tortoise conservation. For the next decade we will develop new conservation activities such as: habitat permeability studies, population viability analysis, predation analysis, intensive educational activities, and the impact of land use changing on Eastern Hermann’s tortoise population. The conservation efforts for Eastern Hermann’s tortoise should focus on maintaining the traditional land uses, increasing landscape heterogeneity of preferred habitats (grasslands, forests, and forest edges) and avoiding both the abandonment and the intensive use of the grasslands.
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