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Elephant populations and CITES trade resolutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

RUDI J. VAN AARDE  and
SAM M. FERREIRA
RUDI J. VAN AARDE
Affiliation:
Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa e-mail: rjvaarde@zoology.up.ac.za
SAM M. FERREIRA
Affiliation:
Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa e-mail: rjvaarde@zoology.up.ac.za
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Summary

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) relies on the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) and Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants Programme (MIKE) monitoring systems and trends in elephant numbers and the illegal killing of elephants to put resolutions forward to the Conference of Parties. Imprecision in elephant estimates and trends, as well as the spatial reality of elephant dynamics constrain CITES resolutions. Clusters of populations should instead serve as management units and demographic profiling predicting future population trends may complement existing approaches to inform CITES decisions.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2009

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