Object Details compiler Pinnock, Don Bell, Colin (Safari guide) writer of foreword William Prince, Duke of Cambridge 1982-Contents Elephants: a human-animal crisis -- Counting elephants / Dr Mike ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

The first and simplest is the direct counting of human-wildlife conflict incidents, such as those in Cot Girek. The second involves an estimation of population based on elephant droppings counted.

Still, the efforts of governments and conservation organizations to count elephants have amassed a remarkable dataset, held by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and its ...