Elephants are large, social mammals found in parts of Africa and Asia. This archive covers their ecology, habitats, relationships with people and the conservation issues affecting them.
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A programme in two Okavango Delta settlements links camera-trap sightings to community payments. The initiative is operating, but its effects on coexistence and wildlife have not been evaluated in the supplied reporting.
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Camera-trap data from Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve show strong establishment and expanding landscape use by elephants and buffalo, while trends among other translocated herbivores vary.
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Investigations are under way after the well-known wild elephant died from a gunshot injury. Proposed response measures have yet to show results.
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A review of research on wildlife and carbon says animals can influence carbon storage and greenhouse-gas flows, but the effects vary by species and ecosystem and are not yet a dependable, general measure of climate mitigation.
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