{"id":2786,"date":"2014-08-18T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2014-08-22T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T03:55:18","slug":"poaching-drives-decline-in-african-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/poaching-drives-decline-in-african-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Poaching drives decline in African elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2776\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64ba0bb3b30ea8c9a8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2776\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64ba0bb3b30ea8c9a8.png\" alt=\"Two adult elephants killed in close proximity in northern Kenya. Clustered kills are a sign of professional poaching. (Photo Credit: Chris Leadisimo)\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two adult elephants killed in close proximity in northern Kenya. Clustered kills are a sign of professional poaching. (Photo Credit: Chris Leadisimo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers estimate that 7% of all elephants deaths in Africa between 2010 and 2012 can be attributed to illegal killings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors first surveyed elephant carcasses in Kenya\u2019s Samburu National Reserve to distinguish between illegal and natural causes of mortality, then built a model to estimate poaching on the continent. The authors conclude that illegal killings have driven the African elephant population down by 2% each year since 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/08\/14\/1403984111\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 18, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/rams.colostate.edu\/gwittemyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Wittemyer<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Colorado State University, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Researchers estimate that 7% of all elephants deaths in Africa between 2010 and 2012 can be attributed to illegal killings. The authors first surveyed elephant carcasses in Kenya\u2019s Samburu National Reserve to distinguish between illegal and natural causes of mortality, then built a model to estimate poaching on the continent. The authors conclude that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,1445,2129],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-poaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase64ba0bb3b30ea8c9a8.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}