Websites
van organisaties met betrekking
tot het in stand houden
van de Afrikaanse
olifanten populatie -
april 2010
Amboseli Trust for
Elephants
www.elephanttrust.org
The Amboseli Trust for
Elephants aims to ensure
the long-term
conservation and welfare
of Africa's elephants in
the context of human
needs and pressures
through scientific
research, training,
community outreach,
public awareness and
advocacy.
Born Free Foundation
www.bornfree.org.uk
The Born Free Foundation
is an international
wildlife charity working
to stop individual wild
animal suffering and
protect threatened
species in the wild.
Convention on
International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES)
www.cites.org
List of all CITES
CoP15 Proposals.
Elephant Charter
www.theelephantcharter.info
The purpose of The
Elephant Charter is to
provide a set of guiding
Principles, based on
elephant biology, to
form a touchstone for
anyone needing to
address elephant
interests. Buttressed by
its Appendix, The
Elephant Charter
represents a consensus
of the nature of
elephants. It is
intended to promote
scientifically sound and
ethical management and
care of all elephants,
providing guidance to
law and policy makers,
enforcement agencies and
the courts,
organizations,
institutions and
international bodies, as
well as to managers of
wild and captive
elephants.
Elephant Voices
www.elephantvoices.org
Elephant Voices works to
advance the study of
elephant cognition,
communication and social
behavior, and to promote
the scientifically sound
and ethical management
and care of elephants
This is accomplished
through research,
conservation, education
and advocacy.
INTERPOL Wildlife Crime
Working Group
www.interpol.int
INTERPOL is the world’s
largest international
police organization,
with 188 member
countries. It
facilitates cross-border
police co-operation, and
supports and assists all
organizations,
authorities and services
whose mission is to
prevent or combat
international crime. The
INTERPOL Wildlife Crime
Working Group focuses
the expertise and
experience of law
enforcement officers, be
it on the poaching,
trafficking or
possession of legally
protected flora and
fauna, and welcomes
participation from all
member countries.
IUCN/SSC African
Elephant Specialist
Group (AfESG)
www.african-elephant.org
The African Elephant
Specialist Group (AfESG)
is a group of technical
experts focusing on the
conservation and
management of African
elephants. The broad aim
of the AfESG is to
promote the long-term
conservation of Africa's
elephants and, where
possible, the recovery
of their population to
viable levels.
IUCN/SSC
African Elephant Status
Report, 2007, the
most recent global
census of the African
Elephant.
Save the Elephants
www.savetheelephants.org
Save the elephants aims
to secure a future for
elephants and sustain
the beauty and
ecological integrity of
the places they live, to
promote man’s delight in
their intelligence and
the diversity of their
world and to develop a
tolerant relationship
between the two species.
Species Survival Network
(SSN)
www.ssn.org
Coordinates the
activities of
conservation,
environmental and animal
protection organizations
around the world to
secure CITES protection
for plants and animals
affected by
international trade.
SSN Factsheets regarding
CoP15 Proposals
University of Washington
- Centre for
Conservation Biology
depts.washington.edu
UoW's Centre for
Conservation Biology
addresses the
continually evolving
need for tools to
monitor human and other
environmental impacts on
threatened and
endangered species
throughout the world.
The Centre's Dr Samuel
Wasser has pioneered
genetic techniques which
enable seized ivory to
be traced back to its
origin in a range
country through DNA
analysis, allowing
identification of
poaching hotspots and
smuggling routes, and
forcing governments to
confront the truth about
poaching in their
countries.
Wildlife Works / Rukinga
Wildlife Sanctuary
www.wildlifeworks.com
Wildlife Works' mission
is to harness the power
of the global consumer
to create innovative and
sustainable solutions
for wildlife
conservation by means of
Consumer Powered
Conservationsm.
The proceeds of sales go
towards saving
endangered and
threatened wildlife by
protecting wilderness
habitats, creating jobs,
building schools and
providing other economic
benefits for those
people who share their
land and resources with
wildlife. At their first
location in Kenya they
created the 80,000-acre
Rukinga Wildlife
Sanctuary, where
elephants, cheetahs and
45 other large mammal
species now roam freely.
Last Great Ape
Organisation
www.laga-enforcement.org
Based in Cameroon LAGA
is the only wildlife law
enforcement NGO in
Africa. Working with
governments they have
been responsible for a
large number of arrests
for wildlife crime -
including illegal ivory
trade.
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