Elephant baby boom in Kenya — numbers double over three decades
12.08.2020
https://m.dw.com/en/elephant-baby-boom-in-kenya-numbers-double-over-three-decades/a-54544415p
There were just 16,000 elephants in Kenya in 1989, but by 2018 that number had grown to more than 34,000, KWS Director John Waweru said during a visit to Amboseli National Park to mark World Elephant Day
World Elephant Day – come on, you just made that up.
dv said:
Elephant baby boom in Kenya — numbers double over three decades12.08.2020
https://m.dw.com/en/elephant-baby-boom-in-kenya-numbers-double-over-three-decades/a-54544415p
There were just 16,000 elephants in Kenya in 1989, but by 2018 that number had grown to more than 34,000, KWS Director John Waweru said during a visit to Amboseli National Park to mark World Elephant Day
It was on the news last night, good news for once and the number poached has dropped as well.
Cymek said:
It was on the news last night, good news for once and the number poached has dropped as well.
Yes, they’re now more often baked or roasted.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
It was on the news last night, good news for once and the number poached has dropped as well.
Yes, they’re now more often baked or roasted.
You’d need an Olympic sized swimming pool to poach an elephant…
Amazing what will happen when you stop killing them.
dv said:
Elephant baby boom in Kenya — numbers double over three decades12.08.2020
https://m.dw.com/en/elephant-baby-boom-in-kenya-numbers-double-over-three-decades/a-54544415p
There were just 16,000 elephants in Kenya in 1989, but by 2018 that number had grown to more than 34,000, KWS Director John Waweru said during a visit to Amboseli National Park to mark World Elephant Day
There used to be a website that tracked numbers of endangered species. I wonder if I can still find it.
Here’s an Elephant poaching chart for South Africa that tells a different story. Elephant poaching is also bad in Botswana. Just not in Kenya.
The most resent Africa-wide elephant data is from the year 2016.
“Five years ago, researchers in Africa undertook a mammoth task: counting the continent’s elephants. The results, released in 2016, were sobering: Just 352,271 savanna elephants were found across their current range—a 30% drop in seven years.”
The charts for up to the year 2016 can be found in
https://www.iucn.org/content/african-elephant-status-report-2016-update-african-elephant-database
“The estimated number of elephants in areas surveyed in the last ten years in Africa is 415,428 ± 20,111 at the time of the last survey for each area. There may be an additional 117,127 to 135,384 elephants in areas not systematically surveyed”.
“This is the first African Elephant Status Report (in 25 years) which has reported a continental decline in elephant numbers. The decline is largely caused by the surge in poaching for ivory that began around 2006, the worst that Africa has experienced since the 1970s and 1980s.”
Kenya is in Part C of the report. SSC-OP-060_C.pdf
Elephants in Kenya counted in 2016 total 20,830 to 20,900. So about 5% of the elephants in Africa. Numbers in Kenya were very close to constant between 2007 and 2016, with a possible increase in that period of about 1,000 individuals.
So an increase from 21,000 in 2016 to 34,000 (from OP) in 2018 in Kenya is both very surprising and welcome.
Ah, COVID-19, Is There Any Planet It Can’t Heal
SCIENCE said:
Ah, COVID-19, Is There Any Planet It Can’t Heal
AFAWK, there is only one planet that is cursed by humans.
SCIENCE said:
Ah, COVID-19, Is There Any Planet It Can’t Heal
The new data was collected in 2018.
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
Ah, COVID-19, Is There Any Planet It Can’t Heal
The new data was collected in 2018.
Correct, it’s so good it can do retrospective healing as well, is it good or what ¿
SCIENCE said:
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
Ah, COVID-19, Is There Any Planet It Can’t Heal
The new data was collected in 2018.
Correct, it’s so good it can do retrospective healing as well, is it good or what ¿
Nutz.
