Juniperus procera

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	CONIFEROPSIDA	CONIFERALES	CUPRESSACEAE

Scientific Name:

Juniperus procera

Species Authority:

Hochst. ex Endl.

Common Name/s:

English

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African Juniper, African Pencil Cedar, East African Cedar

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Widespread from Arabia to Zimbabwe. Existing populations in the Arabian Peninsula represent a small fragment of the woodlands that once existed. Outlying populations in Zimbabwe, the Republic of Congo and Malawi are extremely small and threatened.
Countries:	Native: Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Djibouti; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Yemen (North Yemen); Zimbabwe
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This large tree is found in mountainous areas on rocky ground, mostly between 1,750 and 2,500 m.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	At lower elevations populations appear to be regenerating extremely poorly, possibly because of climatic changes. Trees continue to be cut for fuelwood and timber at a local level, and in some places also for export. Changing land-use patterns, browsing, particularly by buffalo and elephants, and the increase in plantations of fast-growing exotic species are also contributing to the species' decline.

Major Threat(s):

At lower elevations populations appear to be regenerating extremely poorly, possibly because of climatic changes. Trees continue to be cut for fuelwood and timber at a local level, and in some places also for export. Changing land-use patterns, browsing, particularly by buffalo and elephants, and the increase in plantations of fast-growing exotic species are also contributing to the species' decline.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Juniperus procera. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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