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| Title: | Conservation of cetaceans in The Gambia and Senegal, 1999-2001, and status of the Atlantic humpback dolphin. |
| Authors: | Bamy, I.L.
Diallo, M.
Barnett, L.
Camara, A.
Djiba, A.
Ndiaye, E.
Samba Ould-Bilal, A.O.
Van Waerebeek, K.
Cham, A.
Jallow, A. |
| ASFA Terms: | Aquatic mammals |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | Bonn : UNEP/CMS Secretariat, |
| Abstract: | A second project of the West African Cetacean
Research and Conservation Programme
(WAFCET-2) was implemented in Senegal and
The Gambia, from December 1999 till
December 2001. It generally aimed at collecting
information on the conservation status of coastal
cetaceans, with emphasis on the Atlantic
humpback dolphin, and support activities to
improve it.
A base for the recently formed ngo
COREWAM (Conservation and Research of
West African Aquatic Mammals) was made
operative near Dakar. Nineteen new cranial
specimens, representing six cetacean species,
were added to the COREWAM reference
collection: short-snouted and long-snouted
common dolphins (n= 9), bottlenose dolphins
(n= 3), Atlantic humpback dolphin (n= 1),
harbour porpoise (n= 3), ordinary Bryde’s whale
(n= 1) and incomplete bony remains of
unidentified delphinids (n= 2). Presently, 34
skeletal voucher specimens are curated. The
Gambian cetacean reference collection was
enriched with at least a dozen skulls, mostly
bottlenose dolphins, conserved at Kiang West
National Park. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/401 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous
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