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- Title
Management of African elephant populations in small fenced areas: Current practices, constraints and recommendations.
- Authors
Selier, S.A. Jeanetta; Slotow, Rob; Balfour, Dave
- Abstract
The history of elephant management in South Africa differs in a number of significant ways from that of range states to the north. In most range states, although increasingly fragmented, elephant populations persist in unfenced landscapes - including those in protected areas - where the main threats to their survival are poaching, habitat loss or transformation and human-elephant conflict (Thouless et al. [19]). In light of the current ecological thinking, this group advised against the prevalent management rationale of managing (mainly culling or translocating individual elephants) elephant populations based on their numbers and crude habitat metrics (Scholes & Mennell [15]).
- Subjects
AFRICAN elephant; SOUTH African history
- Publication
Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0006-8241
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.4102/abc.v48i2.2414