Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites
| العنوان: | Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites |
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| المؤلفون: | Timothy Kuiper, Res Altwegg, Colin Beale, Thea Carroll, Holly T. Dublin, Severin Hauenstein, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Carl Schwarz, Chris R. Thouless, Andrew Royle, E. J. Milner-Gulland |
| المصدر: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290 |
| بيانات النشر: | The Royal Society, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Immunology and Microbiology, General Medicine, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, General Environmental Science |
| الوصف: | Ivory poaching continues to threaten African elephants. We (1) used criminology theory and literature evidence to generate hypotheses about factors that may drive, facilitate or motivate poaching, (2) identified datasets representing these factors, and (3) tested those factors with strong hypotheses and sufficient data quality for empirical associations with poaching. We advance on previous analyses of correlates of elephant poaching by using additional poaching data and leveraging new datasets for previously untested explanatory variables. Using data on 10 286 illegally killed elephants detected at 64 sites in 30 African countries (2002–2020), we found strong evidence to support the hypotheses that the illegal killing of elephants is associated with poor national governance, low law enforcement capacity, low household wealth and health, and global elephant ivory prices. Forest elephant populations suffered higher rates of illegal killing than savannah elephants. We found only weak evidence that armed conflicts may increase the illegal killing of elephants, and no evidence for effects of site accessibility, vegetation density, elephant population density, precipitation or site area. Results suggest that addressing wider systemic challenges of human development, corruption and consumer demand would help reduce poaching, corroborating broader work highlighting these more ultimate drivers of the global illegal wildlife trade. |
| تدمد: | 1471-2954 0962-8452 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0b283a7996711c00a0adbc79b3a7a3b6 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2270 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0b283a7996711c00a0adbc79b3a7a3b6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14712954 09628452 |
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