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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for wildlife crime (gabon)
1 results foundAuthor: Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux Title: Wildlife and Poaching Assessment in Northeast Gabon: Preliminary results Summary: A tidal wave of elephant poaching is currently sweeping across Africa. Recent results suggest that forest elephant numbers in DRC are below 10,000-15,000 and that the Republic of Congo has lost 50% of its elephants in the last 10 years. Today Gabon, which represents just 13% of Africa’s rain forests, contains over half the surviving forest elephants (Maisels et al. in review). However, even in Gabon there are more and more reports of ivory poaching as world black market prices soar. As ANPN has become more and more effective on the ground over the last three years more and more poachers have been arrested and ivory seized. In 2011 the Gabonese National Parks Agency (Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux / ANPN) and the Gabonese military moved just over 6,000 gold miners out of several illegal gold camps in the Minkebe National Park and its buffer zone. These camps had grown exponentially in size over the previous 2-3 years in response to soaring gold prices as well as the high production of the gold mines, to the point where it represented a threat to national security. In addition to gold mining and trading it was noted that severe elephant poaching and other illegal activities such as arms and drugs trafficking were associated with these camps and encouraged by traders (Mike Fay and Richard Ruggiero, trip report). In 2004, a survey of Minkebe National Park, Gabon, showed that it supported the most important forest elephant population in Africa, estimated at around 21,000 individuals (17,000-26800) (MIKE 2005). Working with the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Wildlife Conservation Society, ANPN launched a survey of Minkebe National Park and its buffer zone in October 2012. The objective was to assess wildlife abundance and human impact across the area and in particular to assess the impacts of the dramatic surge in elephant poaching over recent years. Details: Libreville, Gabon: Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, 2013. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 30, 2013 at: http://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Preliminary_Results_of_Minkebe_Pilot_Study_070213.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Gabon URL: http://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Preliminary_Results_of_Minkebe_Pilot_Study_070213.pdf Shelf Number: 128876 Keywords: Animal PoachingElephantsIvoryWildlife Crime (Gabon) |