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Publications
Recents publications
Vanishing Point – Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants - Environmental Investigation Agency: EIA.
Report into how Tanzania's elephants are once more being slaughtered in vast numbers to feed a resurgent ivory trade in China in an illegal trade driven by Chinese criminal syndicates and Tanzanian corruption.
Open Season : The Burgeoning Illegal Ivory Trade in Tanzania and Zambia - Environmental Investigation Agency: EIA
EIA Environment publication on elephants Ivory Trade.
The Enforcement Imperative : Combating the Illegal trade in Ivory - Environmental Investigation Agengy.
A report on how enforcement measures must be strengthened and implemented as a matter of urgency if the illegal trade in ivory is to be tackled effectively
Wildlife Matters Autumn 2014 (Elephants) - Wild Matters : Defenders of Wildlife.
Our work from grassroats to world stafe in the fight to save the elephants
Elephants and Ivory - International fund for Animal Welfare.
Taking a look at elephants - the facts, the issues, and prospects for elephant conservation.
Action Plan for the protection of the elephants (2007-2011) - World Wildlife Fund
The African elephant is found in 37 countries across the continent.
Population in many areas were severely reduced in the latter half of the twentieth century through legal and illegal hunting.
ASEAN Biodiversity Outlook : Asian Biodiversity Magazine.
Biodiversity is protected, conserved, managed and sustainably used, and its benefits are fairly and equitably shared for the social, economic and environmental well-being of ASEAN Member States.
Poaching and the Illegal Wildlife Trade Crisis - Global Environment Facility.
In response to the international call for action and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, 2011-2020, the GEF-6 Biodiversity Strategy includes the program “Preventing the Extinction of Known Threatened Species” .
Press articles about ElefantAsia 2002-2013 - Elefant Asia
Can you imagine a world without elephants? This reality is closer than you think, for the Asian elephant, elephas maximus, anyway. Today there are thought to be as few 30,000 – 40,000 Asian elephants remaining in the wild, this being less than one-tenth of the African elephant population.
An Overview of the DSWT - David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Here you can find information about all of the DSWT's projects. Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and its wilderness, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.
Adventure World 2015 Worldwide Collection - The Travel Corporation
Our tailor-made 2015 brochure showcases an incredible collection of hand-picked, curated soft adventures to some of the world's most exotic and unique destinations.
Big is beautiful. Transfrontier Conservation Area.
Dr John Hanks 2010 - LWS NorwayFund
The Ultimate to do list (Africa) - The Classic Safari Company
The Classic Safari Company is Australia's Leading Safari Specialist handcrafting exceptional journeys to Africa, Latin America and the Indian Subcontinent.
NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT RHODESIA & ZIMBABWE - Game Rangers Association of Africa.
The Game Rangers’ Association of Africa commits itself to the protection, conservation and, where possible, restoration of Africa`s biodiversity and the continued existence of its wilderness for the benefit of present and future generations.
Elephants: A Way Forward - A CERU publication (International Fund for Animal Welfare).
The Conservation Ecology Research Unit was established in 1998 and is funded through grants from national and international organisations and private industry. These grants provide for the employment of research fellows, support staff and postgraduate bursaries. Research focuses on a scientific foundation for conservation and CERU is widely recognised for research on the conservation and ecology of elephants.
African elephant meetings
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Fourth African elephant meeting, Gigiri, Kenya 26-27 April 2012
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Third African elephant meeting, Gigiri, Kenya 1-3 November 2010
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Second African elephant meeting, Gigiri, Kenya, 9-11 March 2009
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First African elephant meeting, Mombasa, Kenya, 23-25 June 2008
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Regional Meeting of the CITES MIKE Programme, Nairobi (Kenya), 10 –11 September 2002
Selected List of References on Elephants
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Elephants pictures Collection (World's Transportation Commission) :The Library of Congress.
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Wild Elephants in Captivity : Encyclopedia Smithsonian.
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Elephants, Economics and Ivory - EarthScan Library Collection.
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Elephant ivory : Dictionary of Gems and Gemology- Springer Publishing Group
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Elephant Sense and Sensibility - Elsevier Journals & Books
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Cytonuclear genomic dissociation in African elephant species - Nature Publishing Group
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Do Elephants Call "Human"? Low Rumble Alarm Call - Science Daily
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Animal Production Science - CSIRO Publishing
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Review of a newly recognized disease of elephants - Willey Online Library
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Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin - PLOS Biology
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The African Elephant Library (AEL) - IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG)
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Behavioural correlates of low relatedness in African elephant core groups of a poached population - Center for Conservation Biology
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Elephants, Ivory, and Trade - Center of Conservation Biology
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Combating the illegal trade in African elephant ivory with DNA forensics.
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Elephant meat and ivory trade - Pachydern Journal
The African Elephant Library (AEL) includes references on the biology, ecology and management of the African elephant.
MIKE and ETIS
MIKE and ETIS are monitoring tools used by CITES in the complex business of assessing policies for trade in elephant products. Much is at stake when trade controls for elephants are debated within CITES.
The polarity of opinion among the Parties on the subject, together with associated passions, has threatened to skew the working of the Convention in practice and challenged the basis on which it operates. For these reasons, as well as for the benefit of elephant conservation itself, it is crucial that the decisions taken by CITES on elephant issues are based, and seen to be based, on the best possible information.
MIKE and ETIS have been adopted by CITES as sources of such information, to support its decisions on elephants.
MIKE stands for Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants and ETIS for Elephant Trade Information System. Both emerged after the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties as systems for tracking illegal activities involving elephants.
