Ensuring good health and welfare is an increasingly important consideration for
conservation of endangered species, whether free-ranging or managed to varying degrees …

Strategies for the conservation and management of many wild species requires an improved
understanding of how population dynamics respond to changes in environmental …

Elephants face diverse threats from human activities and use temporal and social strategies
to reduce human‐induced mortality risk. We used data from camera trap surveys in 2018 …

Resource conflicts and human–environment conflicts are active around the globe. As
planetary, carbon-induced climate change necessitates new responses, the policies and …

Global ecosystem change presents a major challenge to biodiversity conservation, which
must identify and prioritize the most critical threats to species persistence given limited …

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are well-studied and inhabit diverse landscapes that
are being transformed by both humans and natural forces. Most tools currently in use are …

Increasing trends in elephant population numbers in South Africa contrast those in most
other range states. Most of South Africa's elephants occur in Kruger National Park (Kruger) …

Group sizes of wild herbivores can be indicators of ecosystem health and proxies for
individual and population fitness, particularly in areas where human activities have become …

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) have undergone serious declines in the past century
due to poaching for their ivory. Wildlife managers face significant challenges when planning …

The elephant population in the Kruger National Park (KNP) has been increasing since the
cessation of culling in the mid-1990s. This contrasts with recent trends in elephant …