Elephant Management: A Scientific Assessment for South Africa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868144798 ISBN 13: 9781868144792

Verlag: Wits University Press, 2009

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Elephants are among the most magnificent - but also most problematic -members of South Africa's wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result, elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. The information needed to underpin vital decisions about elephant management has largely been unavailable to decision-makers, contested by experts, or simply unknown. As a result, the South African Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism convened a round table to advise him on this issue. The round table recommended that a scientific assessment of elephant management be undertaken to gather, evaluate, and present all the relevant information on this topic. Its main findings and recommendations are contained in this volume. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savanna elephant populations and factors relevant to managing them to date. As such it is of interest to a broad spectrum of readers in South Africa and elsewhere. Above all, it is aimed at helping conservation policy-makers and practitioners to choose the best possible options for the sustainable preservation of these iconic animals.

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RJ Scholes is an ecologist at the South African Council for Scientific and Indistrial Research (CSIR) and KG Mennell was a masters student in the Ecosystem Processes and Dynamic Research group at the CSIR at the time of publication.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1868144798
• ISBN 13: 9781868144792
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656
• Herausgeber: Scholes Robert (Bob), Mennell Kathleen G
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande