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Humans are biggest factor defining elephant ranges across Africa, study finds
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Tolerance of roaming elephants seen as lesson for Africa By EDITH MUTETHYA in Nairobi, Kenya | China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-16 07:16 Share CLOSE The wandering Asian elephants halt their trek to take a nap in Yuxi, Yunnan province, on June 7. YUNNAN FOREST FIRE BRIGADE
The attitude and tolerance exhibited by the Chinese people toward the 15 elephants that have been wandering through Yunnan province is not only fascinating, but offers key lessons for Africa, according to one of the world s leading experts on the animals.
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the founder of Save the Elephants, a Kenyan-based charity working around the world to protect elephants, said Africa has experienced numerous conflicts between humans and elephants when compared with China. However, the continent can draw lessons from the positive attitude shown by the Chinese people toward the elephants that have trekked more than 500 kilometers from their home
Colin Church, Kenya PR executive who oversaw the protection of black rhino and other rarities in the Aberdare park – obituary
A 250-mile-long electrified fence was installed surrounding the Aberdare mountain range, protecting elephants, leopards and antelopes
Colin Church planting a post in Mau Eburu
Colin Church, who has died aged 81, was a Kenyan public relations executive who devoted the latter part of life to protecting his country’s wildlife and mountain forests, becoming one of East Africa’s most renowned conservationists.
From 2002 to 2012 he served as the chairman of Rhino Ark Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to combating the rampant poaching of black rhinos in central Kenya’s Aberdare National Park. He oversaw the completion, in 2009, of an 250-mile-long electrified fence surrounding the mountain range.
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A study reported in the journal
Current Biology says while about 18 million square kilometres of Africa still has suitable habitat for elephants, the actual range of African elephants has shrunk to just 17 percent of what it could be due to human pressure and the killing of elephants for ivory.
The Mara Elephant Project in Kenya looked at every square kilometre of the continent and found that 62 percent the elephant-land area is suitable for habitat, the Science Daily says.
The findings suggest that, if released from human pressures, including the threat of being killed for their ivory, elephants still have great potential for recovery into areas where the human footprint is light.
Rangelands shrink to a measly 17pc
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