African Elephant Status Report 2002: An Update from the African Elephant Database (African Elephant Status Report: An Update from the African Elephant Database) - Softcover

The African Elephant Status Report 2002 provides the world's most authoritative and comprehensive source of knowledge on the distribution and abundance of the African elephant at the national, regional and continental levels. It is the most recent in a series of reports that began in 1979 with the African Elephant Action Plan. Like its predecessors, it was derived from data contained in the African Elephant Database, a repository of information on the African elephant. Managed by the African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), the AED is the most detailed and comprehensive single-species database of its kind.The African Elephant Status Report 2002 is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, which should aid the reader in understanding some of the more challenging suggestions surrounding the conservation of the world's largest land mammal.