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- Are African elephants an endangered species - IUCN
In the late 1980s there were two campaigns to save African elephants One banned international trade in ivory The other established common property rights to elephants for local communities Has either campaign saved the elephants? To answer this question, we constructed and solved two models, a biomass model and an age structured model We conclude that in countries which successfully
- Africa Forest elephants face growing risk of extinction
Decades of poaching and shrinking habitats have devastated elephant populations all over the continent While the next full assessment of African elephant population numbers is not expected until
- African Elephant Population Declines By 30 Percent - wfdd. org
A census of African savanna elephants in 15 countries between 2007 and 2014 found the population decreased by 144,000 animals
- New study finds elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in . . .
Researchers at the University of Oxford and Save the Elephants have found evidence that African elephants (Loxodonta africana) listen and react to ground vibrations created by human activity New study finds elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues | University of Oxford
- AFRICAN ELEPHANT IVORY - Global Initiative
Illegally Killed Elephants (PIKE) fell to a continent-wide average of about 0 30, the lowest level since the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme began reporting in 2003 4 The reduced poaching seems to be the result of the dismembering through arrests and prosecutions of a large number of transnational organized criminal
- A Preliminary Report on the Number, Distribution and . . . - JSTOR
Botswana Notes Records, Volume 7 A Preliminary Report on the Number, Distribution and Movement of Elephants in the Chobe National Park with Notes on Browse Utilisation by M W L SOMMERLATTE* I Introduction Fire and big game, together with the destructive habits of man, has had a profound influence on the African habitat
- All About Elephants - Scientific Classification | United . . .
Fossil Record Elephants are the only living members of the Order Proboscidea today However, modern day elephants represent only one of many proboscid families that have existed throughout history Elephant ancestry spans over 55 million years and includes more than 300 proboscidean species
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