#humanelephantconflict

[environmentindia]

Striking a Balance in Human-Wildlife Conflicts of India

The interaction between humans and wildlife in India’s Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) offers valuable insights into the dynamics of coexistence and conflict. From leopard-induced livestock losses to elephant crop raiding, the patterns of these interactions reveal a complex interplay between predators and prey. The financial repercussions of these wildlife encounters have spurred communities to adopt various coping mechanisms. Traditional approaches have proven ineffective, prompting the implementation of innovative solutions. Moreover, socio-economic factors significantly influence the intensity of wildlife incursions. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these complex interactions, it is essential to expand the scope of these type of research. These researches are crucial for developing effective conservation and conflict resolution strategies that address the varied challenges faced by communities living alongside wildlife.

Source 👉 Datta, P., Behera, B., Sonobe, T., & Chand, S. (2024). Human Coexistence with Leopards and Elephants: Losses and Coping Strategies in an Indian Tiger Reserve. Trees, Forests and People, 100518.

[tahirarifath-blog]

We humans, we are the most destructive force on the planet. . In Sri Lanka alone, in the first 10 months of 2019, 293 elephants have already been killed in the human-elephant conflict. We managed to poison seven elephants to death over a month ago and just yesterday, another teenage elephant died due to exhaustion after giving back-to-back tourist rides in the relentless heat. . Although there have been some effort put into safeguarding the elephants and implementing solutions to reduce the human-elephant conflict, they have been little to no benefit. Elephants, like other wildlife, don’t recognize human-defined boundaries, and solutions such as translocations, elephant drives and electric fences have had little or no success. I also read that not every two elephants are the same, one method of safeguarding an elephant may not work with another, therefore it's not the easiest problem to solve. . The last official census of wild elephant numbers was held in 2011, and revealed 5,879 were left in Sri Lanka - one of the highest population densities in the world. . A few things that you can do to help- 1. Boycott any attraction that offers or endorses elephant rides 2. Stop visiting the zoo and the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. Animals should not be exploited for human entertainment or any other reason. 3. Obviously, don't buy ivory 4. Be mindful of what you throw in the trash. Don't litter. We all know littering is bad for the planet, by now we should also know that it kills animals. . Your actions could be the difference between life and death for an animal. . If you want to learn more about the issue, @mongabay has a really good article on it. . . . #srilanka #elephants #elephantconservation #illustration #humanelephantconflict #wildlife #illo #illustratingforacause (at Srilanka) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4UQFe1hg2J/?igshid=66y2aguwp04l

[rhinokennedy]

Reposted from @mountkenyatrust According to a study by a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo, #ClimateChange is increasing the chance of human-elephant encounters, as shifting environmental conditions lead to changes in the behavior and distribution of elephants. By using a risk assessment framework, combined with data on the recent spatial distribution of human-elephant conflict (2000-2019) in Thailand, the scientists investigated how these conflicts may develop in the near future (2024-2044), under different scenarios of future climate and socioeconomic conditions. ➡️ Read more; https://www.earth.com/news/human-elephant-conflicts-may-increase-with-climate-change/ #econews #elephantconservation #HumanWildlifeConflict #HumanElephantConflict #wildlifeconservation #climatechangeisreal #globalwarming #wildlifemigration #wildlifemovement https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWQhkFKsqQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[worldelephantday]

[trunkupwines]

Your work is life changing for Elephants. #trunkupwines is so thankful and proud of your service and dedication. ❤️#bekindtoelephants #Repost @biglifeafrica with @get_repost ・・・ Since the start of 2017, Big Life rangers have worked with the @dswt and @kenyawildlifeservice vet unit to treat 17 elephants for injuries in the Amboseli ecosystem. Most of these injuries were unfortunately inflicted by humans, including the 3 wounds on this bull named Tolstoy. #rangers #biglifefoundation #dswt #kws #humanelephantconflict #amboseli #kenya

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

I’m so glad there are places on this earth like the Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park. People who are willing to try and help traumatized young elephants, give them love and a home. • This is a #repost from @dilmahconservation via @PhotoAroundApp The Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park is dedicated to the care of displaced baby elephants like our very own Baby Dilmah and Ted. Here they are taken care of until they are old enough to return to the wild. Dilmah Conservation’s Information Centre located here is dedicated towards creating a better understanding of these magnificent beings in a simple effort to help their conservation status. Visit the Elephant Transit Home at Udawalawe and do stop by at Dilmah Conservation’s Information Centre to learn more about them through an immersive learning experience, and also watch them frolic in a haven made especially for them. #hec #humanelephantconflict #ElephantTransitHome #Elephant #DiversityofLife #Udawalawe #UdawalaweNationalPark #saveelephants #ForLoversofLife #DilmahConservation #SriLanka https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rpLF8grjT/?igshid=171zmi44lv7di

[whenelephantswereyoung]

Saving Myanmar’s Elephants

by World Elephant Day guest blogger Ruth Powys

Saving Myanmar’s Elephants

By Ruth Powys

While a boom in the illegal ivory market is threatening the world’s African elephants, their lesser-known cousins across Asia are silently facing a similar fate.  

The illegal trade in animals and their body parts has been going on for decades. Black markets have been brimming with pangolin scales; elephant ivory, tiger skins, rhino horns and exotic pets for years, but more recently, a new fad has been emerging as Asia’s elephants are being poached for their skin. Hidden in the dense forests, Myanmar’s elephants are witnessing a drastic decline as they succumb to this growing, illicit trade.

Ranked the fourth largest global illegal trade after drugs, arms and human trafficking, illegal wildlife trade is a sophisticated business with an even more sophisticated distribution network. Mong-La in northeast Myanmar, a protectorate area of China well-known for gambling, prostitution and illegal trade of wildlife products, is one of the main destinations where elephant ivory, bones and skin are sold.  

Elephants are endangered across Asia, with only an estimated 40,000 remaining in the wild today – a 90% decline compared to a century ago.  Myanmar retains some of the largest areas of habitat left for Asian elephants and possibly the third largest (yet declining) population of wild Asian elephants after India and Sri Lanka. The country now has as few as 2,000 wild elephants and 6,000 timber elephants left. It is estimated that if the current rate of poaching in the country continues, Myanmar’s elephant population could soon be completely wiped out.  

In 2015 alone, 36 wild elephants were reported to have been killed, with experts believing that many poaching incidents went unnoticed. Last year, Elephant Family – an NGO dedicated to protecting the Asian elephant – funded one of the first ever undercover investigations across Myanmar and China to unravel the growing trade for elephant skin and make this issue known. The findings revealed that elephant poaching in Myanmar is indeed increasing, fuelled by the demand from neighboring China. The skin is cut up, dried and sold on the black market believed to ‘treat’ a number of ailments such as eczema and digestive problems. The investigation also revealed that the skin is being cut into cubes, dried and carved into polished beads for jewellery.

While elephant ivory remains the most valuable part of an elephant, the growing demand for elephant skin and other parts continues to drive up the demand for elephant poaching in Myanmar, further decimating its already fragile elephant population. This year alone, a herd of 20 elephant carcasses including calves, were found in two sites across Myanmar’s forest stripped off their skin.

But Elephant Family and its partners are determined to crackdown on poachers and stop the trade.

What can be done?

Last October, we presented our investigation findings at the CITES[1] Conference of Parties (CoP17) in Johannesburg to make this issue known, calling on range states to tighten procedures to stop trade.  Our ongoing efforts were made visible when our calls to action were successfully incorporated and passed at the Convention.

Our next steps are to build the capacity of regional police, customs and wildlife officials within targeted countries in order to better detect and prosecute cross-border and wildlife trade. If Elephant Family can continue to secure a war chest of funds and carry out further investigations to establish the full extent of this abhorrent trade, we can invest in stronger intelligence and understand more clearly who is trafficking and supplying elephant products, allowing us to crackdown on end markets once and for all and sources fuelling the trade.

So this week, to commemorate World Elephant Day, let us shine a multi-coloured spotlight on Myanmar’s elephants to raise awareness and much needed funds for this little known yet growing trade -a threat that has never been greater.

Our combined efforts can help save Asia’s elephants and stop the trade from escalating up to the level of elephant ivory and rhino horn, while we still have time.  

To find out more about the illegal trade in elephant skin and how you can help, visit http://elephant-family.org/what-we-do/campaigning/elephant-skin

[1] Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species

[pilram16-blog]

#Repost @heartofganesh (@get_repost) ・・・ When you want to help elephants have a better life, particularly in countries that have known tremendous hardship and suffering, lending a hand to the rural village school is a sound way to shift a past filled with conflict toward a future of coexistence. Although people from around the world help change the future for wild and captive elephants, in the end it will be up to the people who live among them to chart their course, and as anywhere, education is key. To light up the hearts of children, offering options and choices for them and their families inspires and enables a different future for one another, for the animals, and for the mountainous forests they all call home. Thanks to the good people at Elephant Valley Project Cambodia, Heart of Ganesh was able to supply and deliver much-needed school bags and water bottles to 127 children living in the middle of these elephant lands. Many of these children did not have their own pencils, let alone notebooks, story books, and other basic learning necessities. The next phase of the Elephant Love Project is already in the works, with wood, sand, and metal set to be delivered to the school in the next few weeks to rebuild the empty library. A cement floor, a proper roof, and sound walls will go in, and then the children will come together to paint their new learning space. Once it’s ready, HG will stock it with books, art supplies, and other educational materials for both teachers and students. A big rumbling thanks to everyone at the school, and trunks up to EVP for generously facilitating. Stay tuned for more good news from the Heart! #humanelephantconflict #heartofganesh #picoftheday

[trunkupwines]

This story is AH-Mazing! @biglifeafrica doing such needed and outstanding work. Follow them to see! #trunkupwines loves them. ・・・ Volume up! Listen to the sound of the breath of this big bull elephant while the @DWST/KWS vet unit treats his spear wounds. His name is Tolstoy, and he is one of the grand old bulls that @amboseli_trust has been following for decades. Big Life rangers found him injured this morning and called in the vets, monitoring him until their arrival. He had been speared three times and although the wounds were deep he was successfully treated, and rangers will continue to monitor his progress over the coming days. It's a difficult time, the maize crop is ripening when the rest of the ecosystem is bone dry, waiting for the next rains. It's inevitable that elephants will raid crops, and equally inevitable that farmers will throw spears in retaliation. We are confident that the completion of phase 2 of crop-protection fencing will reduce these incidents in future. For now, rangers will continue to do their best to minimize conflict and report elephant injuries for treatment. #elephants #rangers #biglifefoundation #dswt #humanelephantconflict #amboseli

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

I’m so glad there are places on this earth like the Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park. People who are willing to try and help traumatized young elephants, give them love and a home. • This is a #repost from @dilmahconservation via @PhotoAroundApp The Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park is dedicated to the care of displaced baby elephants like our very own Baby Dilmah and Ted. Here they are taken care of until they are old enough to return to the wild. Dilmah Conservation’s Information Centre located here is dedicated towards creating a better understanding of these magnificent beings in a simple effort to help their conservation status. Visit the Elephant Transit Home at Udawalawe and do stop by at Dilmah Conservation’s Information Centre to learn more about them through an immersive learning experience, and also watch them frolic in a haven made especially for them. #hec #humanelephantconflict #ElephantTransitHome #Elephant #DiversityofLife #Udawalawe #UdawalaweNationalPark #saveelephants #ForLoversofLife #DilmahConservation #SriLanka https://www.instagram.com/p/BuAp6YigT3K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tdxx4zq85mvp