Sentences with phrase «wild elephant population»

Increased focus on enforcement in a few such areas could help interrupt poaching activities and restore wild elephant populations.

The illegal ivory trade threatens the persistence of stable wild elephant populations.

The majority of source animals were part of just a few wild elephant populations in Africa — and just two areas since 2006.

Not exact matches

Back then, few scientists had caught more than a fleeting glimpse of a forest elephant in the wild; they extrapolated populations by counting dung piles along paths the creatures carved through the underbrush.

The study shows these losses are driving population declines of the world's wild African elephants on the order of 2 percent to 3 percent a year.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

But proving that is what elephants are doing will take more studies, he and others say, and preferably in wild, not captive, populations.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

Does your dream adventure consist of witnessing the magnificent herds of wildebeest stampeding through the Serengeti, are you in search of rare encounters with Africa's largest elephant population in Chobe, or catching remarkable glimpses of wild gorillas as you trek through their natural habitats in Rwanda?

Needless to say, there's a lot to discover and stretching 1,600 km along India's west coast, the Ghats is also home to tigers, leopards, the elusive black panther and the world's largest population of wild Asian elephants.