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 Cover: Elephant coming to water at Lake Banzena at the height of the dry season 2004, Gourma, Mali. Photo: Carlton Ward Jr.


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Journal of the African Elephant, African Rhino and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups

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Contents

1 Chair reports / Rapports des présidents

1 African Elephant Specialist Group / Groupe des Spécialistes des Eléphants d’Afrique - Holly T. Dublin

11 African Rhino Specialist Group / Groupe des Spécialistes des Rhinos d’Afrique - Martin Brooks

16 Asian Rhino Specialist Group / Groupe des Spécialistes des Eléphants d’Asie - Mohd Khan bin Momin Khan with Thomas J. Foose and Nico van Strien

19 Research

19 Changes in elephant numbers in major savanna populations in eastern and southern Africa - J Julian Blanc, Richard FW Barnes, G Colin Craig, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Holly T Dublin, John A Hart and Chris R Thouless

29 Systematic recording of human–elephant conflict: a case study in south-eastern Tanzania - Cyprian Malima, Richard Hoare and J. Julian Blanc

39 Elephant crop damage in the Red Volta Valley, north-eastern Ghana - Patrick Adjewodah, Paul Beier, Moses K. Sam and John J. Mason

49 Nature and extent of human–elephant conflict in Bia Conservation Area, Ghana - Moses Kofi Sam, Emmanuel Danquah, Samuel K Oppong and Enoch A Ashie

59 Population survey of elephants in Okwangwo Division, Cross River National Park, Nigeria - Emmanuel Obot, Clement Edet, Gabriel Ogar and Joy Ayuk

64 Elephants in Cote d’Ivoire—a warning for West African conservation - Frauke Fischer

76 Analyse biométrie des pointes d’éléphants saisies dans le cadre de la lutte antibraconnage par les services de la conservation dans le massif du Sud-est Cameroun - Paul Noupa

82 Threats to the greater one-horned rhino and its habitat, Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India - Anwaruddin Choudhury

89 History

89 The royal hunt of tiger and rhinoceros in the Nepalese terai in 1911 - Kees Rookmaaker, Barbara Nelson and Darrell Dorrington

98 Some observations on the presence of one-horned rhinos in the bas reliefs of the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia - H.H. de Iongh, HHT Prins, N van Strien3 and LG Rookmaaker

101 Opinion

101 Mineral prospecting in the Selous Game Reserve and its dangers to rhino conservation - Rolf D Baldus

106 Field note

106 Less room for a small population of elephants in severely encroached Mikeno massif, southern Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo - Leonard Mubalama and Déo Mbula

110 Guidelines to contributors

 

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