Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.
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Nigeria has only a few hundred elephants left. They are worth saving, for several reasons.
Forest elephants are endangered in Nigeria. Habitat protection, community awareness campaigns, research and stronger regulations could save them from going extinct.
Any law that protects threatened wildlife should be welcomed – but a ban alone will not prevent illegal activity.
Japan was one of the world’s largest ivory markets – research explains why the country is no longer a key destination for the product.
A new study reveals the major players and routes involved.
Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Botswana has been an unparalleled elephant conservation success story. That seems to be changing.
Improving livelihoods by exploring alternatives to wildlife trade would help to curb the poaching of threatened species like elephants.
Locations like border towns as well as people acting as middlemen provide key insights into Uganda’s ivory trade.
Should trade in ivory be banned or not? There may be a solution.
Despite various exceptions, the UK’s proposed ivory ban will be among the toughest in the world.
The destruction of a massive haul of illegal ivory was supposed to send a message to poachers and those who trade in the tusks. Did they notice, or can the ivory be used to help elephant conservation?
An ivory ban in the US had a series of unintended consequences.
Ivory from illegally-poached elephants can easily be mistaken for antique.
The world’s largest trader is closing down.
China has decided to end all domestic trade in ivory, an act that could help elephant numbers all over Africa.
Zimbabwe are looking to resolve a debt to China by selling animals to them. But one of the concerns is that the elephants sold will eventually be farmed and their ivory harvested.
Ivory was a major talking point at the CITES CoP17 conference.Many feel the ban on trade doesn’t work while others believe the ban is the only way to save the iconic species.
In the absence of trading ivory, other solutions have to be found to fund conservation and support communities living on the front line of the battle against poaching.
Top contributors
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Research Associate, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; Chief Research Officer, Good Governance Africa; Managing Director, Harvey Economics Pty Ltd.
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Portsmouth
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Senior Lecturer, Mathematics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, University of Kent
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Associate Professor in Landscape Ecology & Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor Emeritus and Director of the Centre of Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe
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Professor of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Sokoine University of Agriculture
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Resilient Conservation Group, Griffith University
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Research Fellow in Conservation and Sustainability, University of Kent
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct, Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw
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Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp