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Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites (research)

Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites is a research report published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It was authored by Timothy Kuiper, Res Altwegg, Colin Beale, Thea Carroll, Holly T. Dublin, Severin Hauenstein, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Carl Schwarz, Chris R. Thouless, Andrew Royle and E. J. Milner-Gulland.

The report discusses a study that aimed to identify local to global factors that may drive or facilitate elephant poaching across Africa. The study used data from the Monitoring of the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme to analyze data on 10,286 illegally killed elephants detected at 64 sites in 30 African countries from 2002 to 2020. The study found strong evidence to support the hypotheses that the illegal killing of elephants is associated with poor national governance, low law enforcement capacity, low household wealth and health, and global elephant ivory prices. Forest elephant populations suffered higher rates of illegal killing than savannah elephants.

The authors suggest that addressing wider systemic challenges of human development, corruption and consumer demand would help reduce poaching, corroborating broader work highlighting these more ultimate drivers of the global illegal wildlife trade.

Conclusions

The study found strong evidence to support the hypotheses that the illegal killing of elephants is associated with poor national governance, low law enforcement capacity, low household wealth and health, and global elephant ivory prices. The authors suggest that addressing these systemic drivers of poaching will require wider policies and interventions beyond the traditional remit of biodiversity conservation, such as demand reduction in consumer countries, reforms to government institutions to promote greater accountability and transparency, and programs to promote adequate access to educational, health, and economic opportunities where they are lacking.

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