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and Reports

Annual Reports

STEP Annual
Report 2024

STEP Annual
Report 2023

STEP Annual
Report 2022

STEP Annual
Report 2021

STEP Annual
Report 2020

STEP Annual
Report 2019

STEP Annual
Report 2018

STEP Annual
Report 2017

Udzungwa
Landscape Strategy

Summary of the Udzungwa Landscape Strategy

Full version of the Udzungwa Landscape Strategy

Udzungwa Landscape Strategy Stakeholder Workshop Report April 2023

Udzungwa Mountains Situation Analysis May 2023

Publications

Elephant demography, ecology and behaviour

Anthropogenic risk increases night‐time activities and associations in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Ruaha‐Rungwa ecosystem, Tanzania

African Journal of Ecology, 2023

Elephants in a landscape of risk: spatial, temporal, and behavioural responses to anthropogenic risk in African savannah elephants

PhD thesis, 2023

Age structure as an indicator of poaching pressure: Insights from rapid assessments of elephant populations across space and time

Ecological Indicators, 2018

Investigation of the effect of poaching on African elephant (Loxodonta africana) group size and composition in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

Scientific African, 2020

Using Dung Bolus Diameter For Age Estimation

Pachyderm, 2010

Savanna Elephants In Montane Forest

TAWIRI Conference Proceedings, 2009

Publications

Ivory poaching

Spatial analysis of aerial survey data reveals correlates of elephant carcasses within a heavily poached ecosystem Biological Conservation, 2018

Tanzania Elephant Management Plan 2010–2015 Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania, 2010

Elephants, Ivory and Trade

Science, 2010

Publications

Human-elephant coexistence

Efficacy of beehive fences as barriers to African elephants: a case study in Tanzania

Oryx, 2018

Using camera traps to study the age–sex structure and behaviour of crop-using elephants...

Oryx, 2017

A Rapid Survey of Human-Elephant Interactions along the Western Boundary of Rungwa-Kizigo-Muhesi Game Reserves

2016

Tathmini ya Mahusiano Baina ya Watu na Tembo karibu na Uwanda wa Magharibi wa Mapori ya Akiba ya Rungwa-Kizigo-Muhesi

2016

Ruaha HEC Assessment

STEP WC Full Report

2016

Publications

Corridors and connectivity

Cost–benefit analysis as a decision tool for effective conservation planning—The case of the Nyerere Selous‐Udzungwa wildlife corridor in Tanzania.

Conservation Science and Practice, 2024

A systems approach framework for evaluating tree restoration interventions for social and ecological outcomes in rural tropical landscapes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023

Ten Lessons For The Conservation Of African Savannah Ecosystems

Biological Conservation, 2013

Wildlife Corridors In The Udzungwa Mountains

Ecological Restoration, 2012

Vanishing Wildlife Corridors And Options For Restoration

Tropical Conservation Science, 2012

Realities Of Documenting Wildlife Corridors In Tropical Countries.

Biological Conservation, 2009

Publications

Ruaha-Rungwa

Spotted hyaena population density across habitat and land use types in southern Tanzania

Journal of Zoology, 2024

Camera trapping and spatially explicit capture–recapture for the monitoring and conservation management of lions: Insights from a globally important population in Tanzania

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022

Leopard population density varies across habitats and management strategies in a mixed-use Tanzanian landscape

Biological Conservation, 2021

Temporal partitioning and spatiotemporal avoidance among large carnivores in a human-impacted African landscape

PloS one, 2021

Density responses of lesser-studied carnivores to habitat and management strategies in southern Tanzania’s Ruaha-Rungwa landscape

PloS one, 2021

Insights into the status and distribution of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in an understudied potential stronghold in southern Tanzania

African Journal of Ecology, 2021

Quantifying the severity of giraffe skin disease via photogrammetry analysis of camera trap data

Journal of wildlife diseases, 2019

Publications

Udzungwa Mountains

Detecting and predicting forest degradation: A comparison of ground surveys and remote sensing in Tanzanian forests

Plants, People, Planet, 2021

Effect of protection status on mammal richness and abundance in Afromontane forests of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Biological Conservation, 2019

Globally threatened biodiversity of the Eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania

Journal of East African Natural History, 2016

Predictors Of Mammal Distribution And Abundance In Udzungwa Forests

PhD thesis, 2013

New populations of an Endangered Tanzanian antelope confirmed using DNA and camera traps

Oryx, 2012

The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains: diversity, ecology and conservation

Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 2009

A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania African Journal of Herpetology, 2009

The Critically Endangered kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji of southern Tanzania: first census and assessments of distribution and conservation status

Oryx, 2008

A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

Journal of Zoology, 2008

The Highland Mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: A New Species of African Monkey

Science, 2005

The biogeography of introgression in the critically endangered African monkey Rungwecebus kipunji

Biology Letters, 2010