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...
Legal Ivory Trade in a Corrupt World and its Impact on African Elephant Populations
By Elizabeth Bennet - World Conservation Society (WCS) - February 17 2014 Illegal hunting of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) for ivory is causing rapid declines in their populations. Since 2007, illegal ivory trade has more than doubled. African elephants are...