© Jane Wynyard
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Long-term quantification of temporal species trends is fundamental to the assignment of conservation status, which in turn is critical for planning and targeting management interventions.
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A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons.
Although the international trade in elephant ivory is banned by almost every country, there are significant quantities of tusks and carved items moving illicitly within Africa,
The modulatory effects of gestational age and circulating concentrations of progesterone, 5-pregnane-3,20-dione, and estradiol-17 on the uterine sex steroid hormone receptor levels of the African elephant were investigated.
Relative high annual rates of population growth in African elephants confined to conservation areas in southern Africa (for example, 7%; Hall-Martin, 1992) may have negative consequences for the maintenance of biological diversity.
A geographic information system (GIS) was used to analyse field data on the abundance of elephant dung-piles.
Many African elephant populations have declined over the last two decades (Douglas-Hamilton. 1987). In most census zones, as the number of elephants decreases, the number of dead elephants increases.
The taxonomy of West African elephants is reviewed along with their distribution during 1976-1984 study done in a biogeographical context.
Results from a large scale aerial survey of large mammals in the Tsavo ecosystems in February are compared to earlier surveys.
The objective of this report is to provide information on elephant numbers, distribution and trends, and factors affecting these, which will be helpful to countries in reviewing and setting quotas under the CITES Ivory Export Quota agreement.
Attempts to determine if vegetation types of Africa are adequately covered in the existing protected areas system.
Refutes the hypothesis that the ivory trade does not pose an immediate crisis for the elephant, but that the increase in human population causing the restriction in elephant range is responsible for loss of elephants and is at the root of current populati
