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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...