Pachyderm (Dec 1999)
African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) / Group des Specialistes des Elephants Africians (GSEAf)
Abstract
Reviews the ongoing work and commitments of the AfESG noting in particular: completion of the 'Strategy for the conservation of West African elephants' and the 'Strategy for the management of elephants in Mozambique; the formal approval and development of the operative phases of the monitoring system for the illegal killing of elephants (MIKE) and the Elephant trade information system (ETIS); the ongoing work of the taskforce on human-elephant conflict (HETF), and the forthcoming publication of AED 1998.