Ancient elephant highways are colliding with modern borders, revealing how conservation zones fail the animals they’re meant to protect.
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Elephant Connection and WWF followed a young male elephant who had crossed four countries and six national parks in two years, thanks to a necklace laid in June 2023 in southern Zambia. These movements confirm what was already described by a large analysis of border fences, published in 2022 in Frontiers in Conservation Science. The elephant corridor borrowed by the animal, just a few kilometres wide, connects populations that human barriers ten…
Ancient elephant highways are colliding with modern borders, revealing how conservation zones fail the animals they’re meant to protect.
By Daniel Moran - Science Blog Z16 walked about three times the distance from New York to Los Angeles, and he did it without a map, a passport or anybody’s permission. He is a young bull elephant. In June 2023, staff from the conservation NGO Elephant Connection fitted him with a GPS collar north of Sioma Ngwezi National Park in western Zambia. Two years on, that collar logged close to 12,000 kilometres on foot, across four countries and throug…
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