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 Cover: Sumatran rhinos Bina (left) and Torgamba in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra. Torgamba, the male, is at upper left and Bina, the female, at lower right. Photos: Nico van Strien.


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Pachyderm 41: July - December 2006

Journal of the African Elephant, African Rhino and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups

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Contents

1 Chair reports / Rapports des Présidents

1 African Elephant Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Eléphants d’Afrique - Holly T. Dublin

12 African Rhino Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Rhinos d’Afrique - Martin Brooks

16 Asian Rhino Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Rhinos d’Asie - Nico van Strien

20 Research

20 Recensement d’éléphants dans la Réserve Communautaire du Lac Télé, République du Congo - Fortuné C. Iyenguet, Guy-Aimé F. Malanda, Bola Madzoke, Hugo J. Rainey, Catherine A. Schloeder, Michael J. Jacobs

30 Human–wildlife conflict in Mochongoi Forest, Baringo, Kenya: a case study of elephants - Dorothy A. Amwata, Patrick Omondi, Elphas Bitok

37 The survival of elephant dung piles in relation to forest canopy and slope in southern Ghana - Richard F.W. Barnes, John Naada Majam, Bernard Asamoah-Boateng, James Agyei-Ohemeng

44 Première estimation de la densité d’éléphants dans le Parc National de Monte Alen, Guinée Equatoriale - Marielle Puit, Andrea Ghiurghi

53 Human–elephant conflict outlook in the Tsavo–Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya - John Kioko, John Kiringe, Patrick Omondi

61 Insurgency and poverty: recipe for rhino poaching in Nepal - Esmond Bradley Martin, Chryssee Martin

74 Policies that work for rhino conservation in West Bengal - Esmond Bradley Martin

85 Assam leads in conserving the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the new millennium - Bibhab Kumar Talukdar

90 Discussion

90 Elephants, woodlands and ecosystems: some perspectives - Norman Owen-Smith

95 Field note

95 Mitigating human–elephant conflict in Africa: a lesson-learning and network development meeting - Matt Walpole, Noah Sitati, Belinda Stewart-Cox, Leo Niskanen, P.J. Stephenson

100 Rhino notes

100 Rhino population sizes and trends - Richard Emslie

105 Black Rhino Range Expansion Project - Pam Sherriffs

107 Tributes

107 A jungle in mourning: Nepal loses its leading defenders of large mammals - by Eric Dinerstein

109 Andries Marthinus (Clem) Coetsee - by Russell Taylor

111 Guidelines to contributors

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