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The last elephants

Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation. African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent sp...

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Other Authors: Pinnock, Don (Compiler), Bell, Colin (Compiler), William, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1982- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, 2019.
Subjects:
Elephants > Conservation > Africa.
Wildlife conservation > Africa.
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Table of Contents:
  • Elephants: a human-animal crisis
  • Counting elephants / Dr Mike Chase & Kelly Landen
  • Why elephants matter / Dr Ian McCallum
  • Imagining Africa's elephants / Dan Wylie
  • Eavesdropping on elephants / Will Travers OBE
  • Ritual elephants / Patricia Schonstein
  • A tale of two elephants / Audrey Delsink
  • The amazing Jane / Dr Marion E Garaï
  • Last of the big tuskers / James Currie
  • A tribute to the giant tuskers / Colin Bell
  • Big trees, big elephants and big thinking / Dr Michelle Henley
  • Conserving elephants and biodiversity in Africa's savannas / Dr Richard WS Fynn & Dr Timothy G O'Connor
  • Constant gardeners of the wild / Garth Thompson
  • Ensuring elephant survival through community benefit / Romy Chevallier & Ross Harvey
  • Funding elephant conservation / Dr Don Pinnock
  • Poaching networks of East Africa / Carina Bruwer
  • Managing cross-border elephant populations / Dr Jeanetta Selier
  • The illegal wildlife trade / Dr Don Pinnock
  • CITES and trade: is this the organisation to save elephants? / Adam Cruise
  • South Africa. Translocating elephants: are welfare and conservation in conflict? / Dr Marion E Garaï ; Just addo / John Vosloo
  • Botswana. Making a safe haven / Colin Bell ; Botswana's sanctuary / Kelly Landen
  • Zimbabwe. Learning from Zimbabwe's 'presidential elephants' / Sharon Pincott ; Mahenye community, working with CAMPFIRE / Clive Stockil ; Gonarezhou: a place for elephants / Hugo van der Westhuizen
  • Mozambique. Niassa's elephants / Greg Reis
  • Namibia. Desert-dwelling elephants of north-west Namibia / Dr Keith Leggett
  • Tanzania. Selous game reserve: paradise lost? / Colin Bell ; The success of Singita Grumeti / Dr Neil Midlane
  • Kenya. Beneath Kilimanjaro: elephant conservation in Kenya / Dr Paula Kahumbu ; Elephants of the north / Ian Craig OBE ; The elephant and the kid / Luca Belpietro
  • Gabon. Urgent intervention needed to save forest elephants / Wynand Viljoen
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo. Garamba National Park: conservation on the continental divide / Naftali Honig
  • Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville). Odzala-Kokoua National Park / Marcus Westberg
  • Central African Republic. The other African elephant / Andrea K Turkalo
  • Republic of Togo. Ivory and terrorism / Brent Stirton
  • Nigeria. The elephants of Yankari / Nachamada Geoffrey & Andrew Dunn
  • Chad. Zakouma: an elephant success story / Lorna & Rian Labuschagne
  • Mali. The desert elephants of Mali / Vance G Martin & Dr Susan Canney ; The right time to die / Colin Bell
  • Appendices. Get involved: it does matter ; Wayne Lotter: a remarkable man ; Understanding elephant behaviour ; About the authors ; About the photographers.

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