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ISBN: 1776142209 9781776142200 Year: 2018 Publisher: Johannesburg Wits University Press
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Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion - or fail to do so - and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists' accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
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ISBN: 9782081347465 2081347466 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,
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Daphné Sheldrick, celle qu'on surnommera "la mère des éléphants", voit le jour en juin 1934 dans une ferme de colons britanniques, au Kenya. Tout la prédestine à vivre au plus près de la nature, surtout son extraordinaire empathie envers les animaux. Mais rien n'annonce qu'elle se lancera à corps perdu dans la guerre contre les chasseurs d'ivoire, ni qu'elle consacrera sa vie aux bébés orphelins victimes du braconnage. Le récit de cette femme d'exception traverse le XXe siècle et rend compte des soubresauts de l'histoire : les guerres mondiales, la révolte mau-mau, l'indépendance kenyane... Un destin romanesque, au coeur du monde sauvage, plein de chair, de passions et de violence. Décédée en 2018, Daphné Sheldrick a reçu de nombreuses distinctions et s'est fait connaître dans le monde entier par son travail pour la protection des éléphants. Le David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, qu'elle a fondé en l'honneur de son mari, oeuvre pour la sauvegarde de la faune sauvage au Kenya.
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
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This paper estimates the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. To identify the supply curve, the authors observe that ivory is a storable commodity and hence subject to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition. The price of gold, one of many commodities used as stores of value, is thus used as an instrument for ivory prices. The supply of illegal ivory is found to be price-inelastic with an elasticity of 0.4, with changes in consumer prices passing through to prices faced by producers at a rate close to unity. The paper briefly discusses what an inelastic supply implies for elephant conservation policies.
Conservation --- Economic Theory & Research --- Elephants --- Environment --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Poaching --- Price Elasticity --- Storage
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ISBN: 1623495938 9781623495930 9781623495923 162349592X Year: 2018 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]
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Clovis culture --- Indians of North America --- Mammoths. --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Archidiskodon --- Dicyclotherium --- Mammoth --- Mammuthus --- Metarchidiskodon --- Parelephas --- Stegoloxodon --- Elephants, Fossil --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Paleo-Indians --- Antiquities. --- Methodology --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Lange/Ferguson Site (S.D.) --- South Dakota --- Lange/Ferguson Locality Site (S.D.) --- Antiquities
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