5 | CONCLUSIONS
The number of medium and large mammal species recorded from
Amoroprotected forest was small. However, the result of this study will
serve as a signal for further study on the biodiversity of the area and
management actions to be applied in the future. Land degradation
anddifferent anthropogenicactivities such as, agricultural land
expansion, timber production, illegal logging for fuel wood, grazingby
livestock were a common threats for the mammals in the study area. Human
wild animals’ conflict was also recorded frequently with mammals such as
Olive baboon and Vervet monkey because of crop damage such as barley,
maize and pea bean. Similarly, Leopard and Bat eared–fox was a common
livestock predators in the area. In order to, minimize such conflict and
anthropogenic activities on wildlife of the study area, community
participation, enforcement of law and rehabilitating the degraded area
play paramount significance for sustainability of wildlife in Amoro
protected forest is recommended.