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African bush elephant in 1989: CITES ivory ban · 278

[277] [desk-african-elephant-4] r density debates replaced it without a final peace. Why is resilience low if some parks are full? Local highs 1972 -- matrilines with names and decades of calves, the opposite of an anonymous ivory graph. Are elephants The taxonomy wiki is African bush elephant. Forest elephants (L. cyclotis) were widely recognised as a separat A specimen label at a natural history

The taxonomy wiki is African bush elephant. Forest elephants (L. cyclotis) were widely recognised as a separate EN/CR story in the 2021 IUCN assessments. It collapsed legal international commercial trade. Domestic markets, stockpiles and later one-off sales (2008) kept the argument alive. Poaching did not end in 1989.

Amboseli Elephant Research Project since 1972 -- matrilines with names and decades of calves, the opposite of an anonymous ivory graph. Are elephants the highest ecological-role score for a reason? They open woodland, dig water, disperse seeds and rewrite fire. In this 24-type atlas that engineer role outranks even wolves and whales.

Large-scale culling paused in the 1990s. Contraception, range expansion and later density debates replaced it without a final peace. Why is resilience low if some parks are full? Local highs (Chobe, parts of Kruger) sit beside collapsed miombo and Sahel populations. EN is a continental mean, not a waterhole photo.

The order on the card is year, line, figure. African bush elephant is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.1989

Figures to keep

Year of the note
1989
Figure to keep
2021
Species
African bush elephant
Line in the log
CITES ivory ban

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