African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price
| Autor: | Mrigesh Kshatriya, Colin M. Beale, Carsten F. Dormann, Severin Hauenstein, Julian Blanc |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
China Conservation of Natural Resources Corruption Science media_common.quotation_subject Elephants General Physics and Astronomy 02 engineering and technology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Article African elephant 03 medical and health sciences biology.animal Animals Humans Socioeconomics lcsh:Science Poverty media_common Multidisciplinary biology Conservation biology 1. No poverty Law enforcement Commerce Poaching General Chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Investment (macroeconomics) 030104 developmental biology Geography Africa lcsh:Q Crime 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019) Nature Communications |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-019-09993-2 |
| Popis: | Poaching is contributing to rapid declines in elephant populations across Africa. Following high-profile changes in the political environment, the overall number of illegally killed elephants in Africa seems to be falling, but to evaluate potential conservation interventions we must understand the processes driving poaching rates at local and global scales. Here we show that annual poaching rates in 53 sites strongly correlate with proxies of ivory demand in the main Chinese markets, whereas between-country and between-site variation is strongly associated with indicators of corruption and poverty. Our analysis reveals a recent decline in annual poaching mortality rate from an estimated peak of over 10% in 2011 to Ivory poaching has decreased since 2011, and understanding why may help to further prevent losses to elephant populations. Here the authors show correlations between poaching rates and poverty and corruption-related indices, and proxies of ivory demand. |
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