Are white-lipped peccaries from Argentinean Yungas looking to a promising future?

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of the study area with colored polygons denoting the regions sampled during camera trap surveys. Different shades of green are used to represent the Yungas ecoregion, National s and Provincial Protected Areas.

Figure 2. Study area map showing WLP reported camera trap records (red dots), sightings/footprints (blue dots). Labels on dots correspond to record identification. Map shows international borders (light blue lines), main paved roads (yellow lines) and main cities (purple squares).

Table 1. Camera trap surveys and white-lipped peccary (WLP) detected in Argentinean Yungas. Survey year and ID, number of sampling points (camera traps), sampling effort expressed as the sum of the number of nights that each camera trap was active, detection rate as WLP detections/1000 trap days and percentage of camera traps where WLP was detected in the site.

Year	Site – record ID	N° ofSampling points	Samplingeffort	WLPDetections	Detectionrate	% ofsampling points
2013	Site A	32	2105	0	-	-
2014	Site B	37	2258	0	-	-
2015	Site C	34	2426	0	-	-
2016	Site D	49	2805	0	-	-
2017	Site E – 1C	10	327	3	9.17	0.10
2018	Site F – 2C	34	4548	2	0.44	5.88
2019–2020	Site G – 3C	45	10,579	1	0.09	2.22
2020	Site H – 4C	44	4949	1	0.20	2.27
2021	Site I – 5C	6	189	1	0.53	16.67

Table 2. White-lipped peccary opportunistic records in Argentinean Yungas. Record identification (Record ID), year, type of sign and observations.

Record ID	Year	Sign	Observations
1S	2019	Footprints/sighting	Footprints groups over a large area and one sighting.
2S	2019	Footprints	-
3S	2019–2020	Footprints	Footprints groups over a large area for several months.
4S	2020	Sighting	-
5S	2021	Sighting	-
6S	2021	Sighting	Small herd, one individual killed by dogs.