African bush elephant in 2021: IUCN split assessments
[102] [more-african-elephant-2] In 2021, the field log for African bush elephant is headed “IUCN split assessments.” The figure kept beside that heading is 1989. It is a count or a date from the work, not a rank of the species’ worth. A zoo birthday card does not replace the log. Another EN flagship whose national projects (India vs several African states) diverge.
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.
A periodic male state with urine dribble, temporal secretion and aggression. It is physiology, not a mood. 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. Elephant Voices work on rumble communication and later musth and de-tusking ethics -- a second Amboseli-adjacent science. African bush elephant is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
Keep 2021, “IUCN split assessments,” and 1989 together or the note on African bush elephant stops being that year’s record.2021
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2021
- Figure to keep
- 1989
- Species
- African bush elephant
- Line in the log
- IUCN split assessments
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