This study evaluates the impact of two wildfires, in 1994 and 1995, on the large mammal fauna of Emas National Park, central Brazil. The 1994 fire burned 100% of the Park's grassland and after the fire, in a c. 2,000-ha survey area, [we] found 16 giant anteaters Myrmecophaga tridactyla, two giant armadillos Priodontes maximus and one tapir Tapirus terrestris that had died... The 1995 fire burned 15% of the Park's grassland and no dead animals were found in a 220-ha survey area. [We] discuss the possible long-term ecological consequences of wildfires on the large mammal fauna of Emas, with a special focus on the giant anteater population, which is particularly susceptible to fires. [We] recommend a fire management programme, which would include controlled burns on a rotational basis...
Leandro Silveira et al. (1999) Oryx, 33(2), 108–114. Read the full article

Two species of iguana inhabit the islands of the Fiji goup: one, the crested iguana, was discovered [in] 1979 and the other, the banded iguana, once common enough to be an important source of food for humans, is now listed in the IUCN Red Data Book. The author, in his 3-year study, discovered that both species still exist in relatively dense populations on a few small, uninhabited islands, although they have disappeared from those that are developed. He discusses the threats to their survival and the conservation efforts being made... Following an intensive campaign of seminars, photographic displays and general lobbying in the local media, Yaduataba was declared Fiji's first wildlife reserve in August 1980. Two government Ministers, representatives from the National Trust for Fiji, the owners of the island and local officials made up the party visiting Yaduataba.
John Gibbons (1984) Oryx, 18(2), 82–91. Read the full article

On 3 December 1958 the two ports in the Kariba Dam, through which the whole volume of the great Zambesi River was then flowing were closed. This heralded not only a major step in this vast engineering project but also the commencement of the greatest environmental upset ever to befall a population of animals and birds within the African continent, in the memory of man. The lake so created along the border between Northern and Southern Rhodesia will, by 1961, be by far the largest artificial body of water anywhere in the world, and will have a surface rea of some 2,500 square miles. It is as though water stretched from London to York with a maximum width of 35 to 40 miles. The area of this lake will equal that of Devonshire.
Reay H.N. Smithers (1959) Oryx, 5(1), 21–24. Read the full article