Resources for Asian Elephant Conservation
Resources for Asian Elephant Conservation
AsESG Resources
Guidelines for the rehabilitation of captive elephants
as an option for augmenting wild populations
Emerging diseases affecting Asian Elephants
Management and welfare of captive Asian elephants used in tourism
Guidelines for management and care of captive elephants in musth
Guidelines for creating artificial water holes in elephant habitats
IUCN Red List Assessment of Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) 2020
IUCN AsESG report on invasive plant species in ele habitats_LE.pdf
Other Resources
From the Asian Elephant Transport Working Group
National Elephant Conservation Action Plan
By: Department of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 2022 -32
By: Department of Wildlife and National Park, Peninsular Malaysia 2023-2030.
By: Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division, Ministry of Nature Resources & Environmental Conservation, Union of Myanmar
By: Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
By: Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal
By: Bangladesh Forest Department, Ministry of Environment & Forest, Government of Bangladesh
is the report of the Task Force constituted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India in 2010 to recommend measures to strengthen elephant conservation in India.
By: NATURE CONSERVATION DIVISION, Department of Forests and Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan.
The document is in two languages (Cambodian and English). The English version starts from page 45
By: Sabah Wildlife Department, Malaysia
Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants
Members of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) work closely with the CITES Programme for Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE).
Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme is an international collaboration that keep track of trends in illegal killing of elephants in selected sites across Africa ( 60 sites in 30 Range States) and Asia (28 sites in 13 Range States). MIKE is not in itself an anti-poaching operation to stop the illegal killing of elephants, although the data collected through MIKE provides vital information needed for elephant range States to make appropriate management and enforcement decisions, and to build institutional capacity for the long-term management of their elephant populations.
The following practical manuals and minimum standards documents are available:
MIKE Aerial Survey Standards Version 2
Dung Survey Standards for the MIKE Programme
MIKE Dung Survey Standards. Members of the AsESG have contributed to the production of the Dung Survey Standards for the MIKE Programme, which is the standard ‘how to’ manual for dung-based elephant survey methods including both dung count based and fecal DNA based capture–recapture methods.
Literature on Asian Elephants
Save the elephants
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Elephant Care International (ECI)
The ECI elephant bibliographic database is comprised of over 5000 articles on African and Asian elephants, related primarily to healthcare, science, and husbandry. Ecology and conservation information (especially related to the Asian elephants) is also included. Check the ECI website for more information
Centre for Conservation and Research (CCR)
CCR provides compilations of all relevant scientific publications on Asian elephants since 2008. The papers are sorted by year and author and a direct link to the publishers website is given to read the abstract and download the paper. The same publications are also listed in the abstract sections of each Gajah http://www.ccrsl.org/Literature/compilations-of-scientific-publications-on-asian-elephants
An annotated list of references on the biology, ecology, and management of the African Elephant has been developed, initially with funding from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, to facilitate the work of researchers, field staff, and resource managers.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a simple and free search engine specialised to find literature. It lets you conduct searches using a combination of keywords (eg. Asian elephants). You could also log on to Google scholar for literatures on Asian Elephants
African Elephant Library (AEL)
An annotated list of references on the biology, ecology, and management of the African elephant has been developed, to facilitate the work of researchers, field staff, and resource managers. It is also of relevance to Asian elephant conservation and management and is accessible through the AEL website.
Useful Links to Other Organizations
The following organizations are all concerned with Asian elephant conservation, management, or research and their websites provide further information and resources on elephants.
CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme
ElephantVoices
Fauna & Flora
International
International Elephant
Foundation (IEF)
Save the Elephants
Save the
Elephants - Publications
Smithsonian /
National Zoological Park
U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service Asian Elephant Program
Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) Asian Elephant Conservation Program
Elly Allies: Initiatives for Asian elephants in South East Asia and China
Wildlife Trust of India