Anthropogenic and environmental factors determine occupancy and rarity of large carnivores in the Omo valley, Southwest Ethiopia

Large carnivores in Ethiopia are declining in numbers and range due to human population pressure, habitat fragmentation and loss, compounded by low political interest for conservation. To conserve large carnivores, it is important to study the impact of these factors on their occupancy.
For this purpose, un-baited camera traps were deployed in Chebera Churchura, Maze, and Omo National Parks and Tama Community Conservation Area using a 25 km2 grid for two months periods in each Protected Area from 2020 – 2022. We tested the effects of environmental and anthropogenic covariates on carnivore occupancy while accounting for imperfect detection using a multispecies occupancy model.
We recorded all six large carnivores from Omo Valley. However, the number of large carnivores, and their level of detection, vary across the study sites; Omo National Park is the only Protected Area where all species were recorded.
Maze National Park had the highest number of lion detections and lowest number of le..., To investigate the occupancy of large carnivore across Omo Valley and the factors affecting it, we employed un-baited camera traps in Chebera Churchura, Maze, and Omo National Parks and Tama Community Conservation Area using a 25 km2 grid for 60 days each from 2020 – 2022. , , # Data from: Anthropogenic and environmental factors determine occupancy and rarity of large carnivores in the Omo valley, Southwest Ethiopia

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nk98sf83t](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nk98sf83t)

## Description of the data and file structure

### Files

#### Omo\_ Leopard\_detection\_history\_and\_covariates.csv

#### Omo\_Spotted\_hyaena\_detection\_history\_and\_covariates.csv

#### CCNP\_leopard\_detection\_history\_and\_covariates.csv

#### File: CCNP\_Spotted\_hyaena\_detection\_history\_ad\_covariates.csv

Tsyon Asfaw1, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri2,3, Herwig Leirs1, Fikirte Gebresenbet4, Hans Bauer1,2*

1Evolutionary Ecology Group, Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Antwerp, Belgium

2Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Abingdon Road, Tubney, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom

3Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, Dinsho, Ethiopia.

4Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University o...