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Nature 437, 318 (15 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437318b; Published online 14 September 2005

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Re-wilding: other projects help carnivores stay wild

Guillaume Chapron1

  1. Laboratoire d'Ecologie CNRS UMR 7625 et Plateforme Environnement, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France Laboratoire d'Ecologie Animale UMR MA105, Université d'Angers, France

In their plea for bringing Pleistocene wildlife to the New World ("Re-wilding North America" Nature 436, 913–914; 2005), Josh Donlan and colleagues do not discuss successful efforts to ensure long-term survival of large carnivores in Africa and Asia.In Namibia, the Cheetah Conservation Fund has developed programmes to foster acceptance of this predator, by providing farmland-owners with educational material and encouraging them to take pride in cheetah presence.

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