Serval (Leptailurus serval) data for Africa – update to IUCN conservation Status – sigthings needed
Dear MammalWatching Community,
My name is Lourens Swanepoel, and I am based at the University of Venda in South Africa. Following correspondence with Jon Hall, he kindly suggested that we post this request to the community forum.
My team and I are currently revising the IUCN Red List assessment for the serval (Leptailurus serval). While we have compiled a substantial dataset, we are still missing data from several key regions that are critically underrepresented in our records.
We are especially seeking presence records (e.g. sightings, camera trap images, survey detections) from the following countries:
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, northern Liberia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, eastern Kenya, eastern Uganda, southern Tanzania, northern and central Mozambique, eastern Botswana, central and eastern Zimbabwe, South Africa (Cape region and Gemsbok Park), northern Angola, and Gabon.
If you have trip reports, sightings, or any relevant information from visits to these regions between 2016 and the present, we would be very grateful if you could share them with us. Reports from both formal research and private travel are equally valuable.
We are committed to protecting both data confidentiality and the sensitive nature of species records. Where necessary, we are open to formal data-sharing agreements.
You are welcome to contact me directly at lourens.swanepoel@univen.ac.za.
Sincere thanks in advance for any contributions.
Warm regards,
Lourens Swanepoel
University of Venda, South Africa
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