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J’ai contacté la SEM Mwe Ara, structure gestionnaire du Domaine de Déva, pour leur demander
comment mettre en place un partenariat entre l’IAC et leur structure qui nous permettrait de
pouvoir travailler sur le Domaine en Collaboration avec leurs agents et dans le respect de leurs
règles, ils m’ont transmis le Modus Operandi suivant :
b) Ayant présenté ces données, nous formulerons notre avis quant à faire débuter ou non ces
travaux sur le domaine, sachant qu'ils devront ABSOLUMENT SE PRESENTER A LA SEM et nous rendre
compte préalablement du planning des visites qui seront effectuées sur le Domaine.
c) Si l'arrêté d'autorisation est délivré, le bénéficiaire devra effectuer une restitution auprès de la
SEM un mois avant le terme de l'autorisation délivrée
Ce fut aussi l’occasion pour moi de leur faire savoir que je réalisais une thèse sur les roussettes en
Nouvelle-Calédonie et cela nous a aussi permis de réfléchir à des collaborations possibles lors de nos
expérimentations. De leur côté ils ont proposé de me fournir les dents des roussettes qu’ils
collectaient par l’intermédiaire des gardes natures (saisies de chasse) ou des vétérinaires (roussettes
domestiques). De mon côté je leur ai expliqué que j’allais surement faire des captures dans le cadre
de ma thèse et ils semblaient intéressés par récupérer de l’urine si cela était possible, lors des
captures.
Calcul des éloignements des gites aux tribus et du temps d’accès pour chaque gite suivi
A l’aide des cartes routières de la DITTT, de l’outil itinéraire de « google map » et des fonds de carte
« géorep » du gouvernement, j’ai pu calculer les distances des gîtes de roussettes aux tribus et les
temps d’accès des tribus et des villes aux gîtes.
Réponse : « Nous vous remercions pour l'intérêt que vous avez porté à notre bourse mais nous avons
le regret de vous annoncer que votre candidature n'a pas été retenue pour la bourse "Ecologie
impliquée" Barbault-Weber. Nous avons reçu cette année 39 dossiers analysés par un jury de 6
personnes issus de la SFE, H&B, AFB et FRB et seuls 2 pouvaient être financés. »
Dear Malik,
I am very pleased to inform you that the ABS Conference Organising Committee has decided to
award you AU$1,000.- towards your travel expenses.
Thank you for submitting your excellent application – We look forward to seeing you at the
conference in April!
Best wishes,
Dr Justin A. Welbergen
President, The Australasian Bat Society, Inc
V. Perspectives
1. ABS 2018
J’ai donc soumis un abstract (Annexe 3) pour participer à la prochaine conférence internationale
organisée par l’Australasian Bat Society qui regroupera un grand nombre de chercheurs, ingénieurs,
gestionnaires et autre spécialistes des chauves-souris de la zone Asie-Pacifique.
Pour cela je prévois de leur produire un guide simplifié de connaissance et d’identification des
espèces et aussi des fiches à remplir lors de collectes d’informations ou d’échantillons.
Je suis actuellement sur un projet de suivi et de mise en protection d’un nid de roussettes sur
Dumbéa avec la DENV de la province Sud, notamment le service des gardes nature. Le suivi de ce nid
pourra être intégré dans les données futures de l’observatoire roussette sur lesquelles je travail.
VII. Annexes
1. Australasian Bat Society Congres 2018, Travel Grant
My presentation
My name is Malik OEDIN, I am a New Caledonian native student based in New Caledonia (greater
Australasian Pacific region) and I am currently conducting a PhD thesis at the University of New
Caledonia (UNC) with a Grant from the South Province to accomplish its work. My PhD untitled
“Demographic sensitivity of New-Caledonian flying fox’s populations toward hunting and invasive
mammal's predation” is co-supervised by Dr. Fabrice Brescia from Institut Agronomique néo-
Calédonien (IAC) and Drs Alexandre Millon and Eric Vidal from Aix-Marseille University (IMBE- AMU,
France) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, New Caledonia). The aim of the
thesis is to improve knowledge on population dynamics of two species of flying fox (genus Pteropus)
in New Caledonia and to evaluate the impacts of hunting and feral cats on those species. The goal of
his PhD work is to provide direct tools for managers and authorities to improve management of
flying foxes in New Caledonia and set the scene for a transfer toward adaptive management of these
emblematic and endemic species. I accomplished all my undergraduate studies in New Caledonia,
and I was graduated with a Master's degree in Ecology and Population Biology from Poitiers
University (France); I am now specialized in the study and management of threatened or invasive
species. I wish to pursue in a research career for the management of the biodiversity in New
Caledonia. I am also strongly involved in bats conservation via volunteer's actions as Vice-President
of the New Caledonian Bat Conservation Society.
My project for the Australasian Bat Society Conference, Forum and AGM
During the Australasian Bat Society Conference, I want to present, during an oral presentation, the
result of the first part of my PhD which is the survey of New Caledonian flying fox populations
through a monitoring program which is based on the analysis and valorization of previous data and
reflection about the management of cultural and natural keystone species when they are harvested.
In my presentation I will talk about the interest and the necessity to improve our management of
these species and so the necessity to establish adapted monitoring to assess their populations. I will
take for example the complexity to study flying fox in the New Caledonian context of high pressure
which makes them particularly fearful of humans and their perturbations. I will explain methods used
to tackle these problems and results produced by analysis of count data over several years. Finally, I
will achieve my presentation with propositions for adaptive management in New Caledonia and
future survey we have to establish.
My talk to the ABS conference will be the first oral presentation and participation to a conference for
my second year of thesis. With my presentation, I hope to generate the interest of colleagues in the
same field to engage discussion and sharing analysis and experiences on this subject. I want to seize
this opportunity to discuss also with researchers of my future study in order to improve my study
design and prepare selection of data collect and analysis strategy. Finally, it will be for me a chance
to talk about my working hypothesis with specialists to better understand their strengths and their
weaknesses and improve them secondly. I have also planned on meeting researchers with which I am
already in contact with by mail and that work on similar studies like Christopher Todd and maybe
Glenn Hoye.
Abstract
Flying fox (Pteropus sp.) populations are actually facing multiple threats and declining in the majority
of their distribution area. Their conservation has to be a priority, particularly on Islands where they
are keystone species for forest ecosystem functioning.
In New Caledonia, flying foxes are emblematic species of great cultural importance for indigenous
people. However, P. tonganus & the endemic P. ornatus, are heavily harvested for bushmeat and
their habitats are decreasing. Furthermore, feral cats prey upon these species throughout the year in
all forested areas. The disappearance of historical roosts indicated a decline of populations in New-
Caledonia and this trend is perceived by most local people.
To assess the trend of hunted flying fox population, we conducted a large scale survey of 30 roosts
twice a year by three-night fly-out counts between 2010 and 2016. Preliminary data analyses have
detected a slight declining trend and large inter-annual variations, partially linked with
environmental factors. We assessed the correlation of proxies on roost growth rate such as annual
fruit crops productions and distance of roosts from tribes, with the hypothesis that remote roosts
being less impacted by poaching due to limited access and roosts very close to tribes could benefit
from of a ‘customary’ protection. But also the potential negative effects of bushfire and tropical
storm.
Finally, we reviewed the gaps in scientific and social knowledge we need to fill in order to build an
adaptive management plan for a sustainable Pteropus harvest and conservation of associated
cultural aspects in New Caledonia.