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Human-Elephant Conflict Working Group (HECWG)

Human-Elephant Conflict Reviews and Case Studies

These reviews and case studies have provided valuable insights into critical aspects of human-elephant conflict, and contributed to increasing the knowledge on which to base strategies for conflict mitigation.

A synthesis of these reviews and studies was published in issue 28 of the AfESG Journal Pachyderm with the title Projects of the Human Elephant Conflict Taskforce: Results and Recommendations (Ref: Hoare, R. (2000) Pachyderm 28 (Jan - June 2000): 73-77).
Category Title of Study Outputs and Benefits
Vertical Integration in human - elephant conflict management
  • New! ‘Vertically Integrated’ human-elephant conflict management system in Tanzania: Background and next steps (Richard Hoare) - PDF 85 Kb
  • Human-elephant conflict must be tackled at many levels, geographical and organizational, ranging from the site to the central government. This case study provides an assessment of the players involved in HEC management in Tanzania and their roles.
Determination of significant factors in Human-Elephant Conflict
  •  The social dimensions of HEC in Africa: a literature review and case studies from Uganda and Cameroon (Lisa Naughton, Robert Rose and Adrian Treves) - PDF 2.7Mb
  • Elephant crop raiding in the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic (Andrea Turkalo and Ami Kamiss) - PDF 205Kb
  • The distribution of elephants in relation to crop damage around the Bia Conservation Area of Ghana/Cote d'Ivoire during the 1999 rainy season. Executive summary (Moses Kofi Sam) PDF - 6kb
  • Assessing the evidence for the existence of 'habitual problem elephants' (Richard Hoare) - PDF 8Kb
  • Comparative analysis of elephant damage levels versus losses from other pest species in subsistence agricultural communities.

 

  • Identification of factors contributing to rural peoples' negative attitudes to elephants.

 

  • Improved understanding of human-elephant conflict dynamics in tropical forested areas.

 

  • Recognition of the importance of problem elephant sub-populations and insights into their social ecology.

Management of problem elephants
  • A review of problem elephant policies and management options in southern Africa (Russell Taylor) - PDF 11Kb
  • Review of Compensation Schemes for Agricultural and Other Damage Caused by Elephants- PDF

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  • Fencing and other barriers against problem elephants (Richard Hoare) - PDF 80.5 Kb
  • Mitigating Elephant Crop-raiding: The Red Volta Valley Experience, Ghana (Patrick Adjewodah, Andy Murphy and John Mason) - PDF 60Kb
  • The Elephants of Cabinda:Mission Report Angola, April 2005 (Joe Heffernan) - PDF 636 Kb
  • Identification of policy vacuums in problem elephant management at national level.
  • Formulation of principles for the management of problem elephants. 

              
    
                
  • Relative ineffectiveness of monetary compensation schemes for elephant damage. 
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            Spatial analysis of Human-Elephant Conflict
            
									
    
										
  • A spatial analysis of human-elephant conflict in the Tsavo ecosystem, Kenya (Bob Smith and Sam Kasiki) - PDF 12Kb
										
  • Recommendations from the AfESG pilot sutdy on the use of satellite imagery to map HEC sites in Africa - PDF 55 Kb.
									

										
            
              
    
                
  • Demonstration of the potential and future role for geographical information systems (GIS) to store, analyse and present data on human-elephant conflict. 
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More HECWG pages: 

            	Introduction

            	Products of the Human Elephant Conflict Working Group 

                  > Human-Elephant Conflict Reviews and Case Studies - This page 

                  > Tools for the Study and Management of Human-Elephant Conflict

                  > Current Recommendations on HEC and Current Activities

          

        
      


  





  

    
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