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Impact of Human–Elephant Conflict Risk Perception on Farmers’ Land Use Efficiency in Yunnan, China

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In countries and regions where Asian elephants are distributed, human–elephant conflict has become an important ecological and socio-economic issue. As one of the major habitats of Asian elephants, China faces severe challenges.
Mengyuan Zhao, Jia Chen, Beimeng Liu, Yi Xie   +3 more
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Successful artificial insemination in the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) using chilled and frozen-thawed semen

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2009
Background Artificial insemination (AI) using frozen-thawed semen is well established and routinely used for breeding in various mammalian species. However, there is no report of the birth of elephant calves following AI with frozen-thawed semen.
Wongkalasin Warut, Boonprasert Khajornpat, Rungsri Ronnachit, Jansittiwate Saran, Angkawanish Taweepoke, Pinyopummin Anuchai, Kornkaewrat Kornchai, Pongsopavijitr Pornsawan, Thitaram Chatchote, Mahasawangkul Sittidet, Thongtip Nikorn, Homkong Pongpon, Dejchaisri Suthathip, Wajjwalku Worawit, Saikhun Kulnasan   +14 more
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara, Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Musth in female Asian Elephant

Zoos' Print Journal, 2003
1202 According to the census carried out in May 2002, Similipal forests (20o17'-22o34'N; 85o40'-87o10'E) of Orissa, harbour 512 elephants consisting of 96 males, 283 females, 133 juveniles and calves, and five whose sex could not be identified. Only one makhna, the tusk-less male, was in the record.
Debabrata Swain, L.A.K. Singh
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Temporal Responses to Warming: Do Wild Herbivores Trade Off Heat, Predators, and Humans?

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We untangled how summer temperature, predators, and humans influenced behavioral responses in two deer species. Both reduced their daily activity level in response to warming, yet only roe deer increased nocturnality to avoid heat. Conversely, fallow deer traded off heat avoidance with predator avoidance.
Noemi Pallari, Niccolò Fattorini, Martina Calosi, Lorenzo Lazzeri, Giulia Tettamanti, Sandro Lovari, Francesco Ferretti   +6 more
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Asian Elephants as Agricultural Pests: Damages, Economics of Control and Compensation in Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2002
Despite growing attention to crop and property damage caused by the Asian elephant, uncertainty exists about the magnitude of this problem. This paper explores the nature and magnitude of this problem of Sri Lanka.
Ranjith R.W.T.M. BANDARA, Tisdell, Clement A.   +1 more
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The Size, Demography, and Distribution of Cambodia's Largest Elephant Population Revealed Using Traditional Genetic Tools and a Novel SNP Panel

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Asian elephant population parameters were assessed using microsatellite, SNP, and sex determination DNA markers. This represents one of the first studies in mainland Asia to demonstrate that integrating microsatellite and SNP data enhances genotyping success from degraded fecal samples, increases the number of useable samples and markers, and ...
Rachel Crouthers, Wayne Linklater, Peter Ritchie, Visattha In, Chanrith Phoeurk, Alexander Ball   +5 more
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Patterns, Trends, and Issues of Illicit Wildlife Hunting and Trade: Analysis Based on African Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2017
The creation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 has significantly altered the dynamics of trade in fauna and flora.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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Distribution and Status of the Asian Elephant [PDF]

Oryx, 1978
This comprehensive survey of the Asian elephant is the result of an FPS-sponsored project dating from 1973. The author is Co-Chairman with J.C. Daniel, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society) of the Survival Service Commission's Asian Elephant Group, created in 1976.
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