African bush elephant — Named and then banned · 265
[798] [roadmap-african-elephant] Elephant Voices work on rumble communication and later musth and de-tusking ethics -- a second Amboseli-adjacent science. 265 Tourism, conflict payments, quotas and captive loans are dated economic bands in the market chapter -- not live prices and not a best-species prize. 1972: log African bush elephant under “Named and then banned” with 89. Do not rank the speci
The atlas type is the bush elephant -- an ecosystem engineer whose ivory ban (1989) and split from forest elephants still structure African conservation. Why bush elephant, not African elephant in general? 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. A periodic male state with urine dribble, temporal secretion and aggression. It is physiology, not a mood.
Keep 1972, “Named and then banned,” and 89 together or the note on African bush elephant stops being that year’s record. 1972: log African bush elephant under “Named and then banned” with 89. Do not rank the species. 891972
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1972
- Figure to keep
- 89
- Species
- African bush elephant
- Line in the log
- Named and then banned
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