Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum For the first time, scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar conducted a detailed comparison of the mechanical...
Japan’s Ivory Trade in the Face of the Endangered Species Convention
By Peter H. Sand Abstract Commercial trade in ivory remains one of the major threats to the survival of an iconic wildlife resource: the elephant, in particular the African species (Loxodonta africana). At its 2016 Johannesburg meeting, the Conference of the Parties...
Combating transnational organized crime by linking multiple large ivory seizures to the same dealer
Samuel K. Wasser1,*, Amy Torkelson1, Misa Winters1, Yves Horeaux1, Sean Tucker1, Moses Y. Otiende2, Frankie A.T. Sitam3 Abstract Rapid growth in world trade has enabled transnational criminal networks to conceal their contraband among the...
Fencing solves human‐wildlife conflict locally but shifts problems elsewhere: A case study using functional connectivity modelling of the African elephant
Liudmila Osipova Moses M. Okello Steven J. Njumbi Shadrack Ngene David Western Matt W. Hayward Niko BalkenholJournal of Applied Ecology ABSTRACTFencing is one of the most common methods of mitigating human‐wildlife conflicts. At the...
Europe’s Deadly Ivory Trade
Avaaz in collaboration with University of Oxford and Elephant Action League - July, 2018 Despite being a major donor for elephant protection and conservation in Africa, the EU is still presiding over a thriving domestic trade in ivory. Within Europe, it is still legal...
The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals
Franck Courchamp ,Ivan Jaric,Céline Albert,Yves Meinard,William J. Ripple,Guillaume Chapron A widespread opinion is that conservation efforts disproportionately benefit charismatic species. However, this doesn’t mean that they are not threatened, and which...
African honeybees as a mitigation method for elephant impact on trees
R.M. Cook (a),⁎, F. Parrini (a), L.E. King (b,c), E.T.F. Witkowski (a), M.D. Henley (d,e) (a) School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (b) Animal Behaviour Research Group, Department of Zoology,...
The shared nature of Africa’s elephants
Keith Lindsay, Mike Chase, Kelly Landen, Katarzyna Nowak - November 2017 - Biological Conservation ABSTRACT: The world's biodiversity is shared by countries that are increasingly recognizing the need for effective responses to human influence and climate change...
Long-term field studies of elephants: understanding the ecology and conservation of a long-lived ecosystem engineer
Herve Fritz Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 98, Issue 3, 29 May 2017, Pages 603–611,https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx023 Abstract Elephants may live for > 60 years, so it is obvious that long-term studies are necessary if we are to understand their life histories....
Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity?
Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data Solomon Hsiang, Nitin Sekar NBER Working Paper No. 22314 Issued in June 2016 Black markets are estimated to represent a fifth of global economic activity, but their response to policy is poorly...