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Elephants and Ivory
Author(s) -
Burn Bob
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00244.x
Subject(s) - poaching , geography , computer security , genealogy , business , history , computer science , biology , ecology , wildlife
Counting elephants ought to be easy. It is not. Counting elephants lost to poaching is even harder. But, without knowledge of both, how can we know whether banning the sale of ivory is helping to save elephants? Bob Burn explains the problems.