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Problem-Elephant Translocation: Translocating the Problem and the Elephant?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 07 Dec 2012Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2012 Switzerland Publisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS)Journal:PLoS ONE, volume 7, page e50917 (eissn: 1932-6203,

Authors: Fernando, Prithiviraj; Leimgruber, Peter; Prasad, Tharaka; Pastorini, Jennifer;

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050917 , 10.5167/uzh-72471

pmid: 23236404

pmc: PMC3517608

handle: 10088/21116

Problem-Elephant Translocation: Translocating the Problem and the Elephant?

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Abstract

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Translocating "problem-elephants" is an important HEC mitigation and elephant conservation strategy across elephant range, with hundreds translocated annually. In the first comprehensive assessment of elephant translocation, we monitored 16 translocations in Sri Lanka with GPS collars. All translocated elephants were released into national parks. Two were killed within the parks where they were released, while all the others left those parks. Translocated elephants showed variable responses: "homers" returned to the capture site, "wanderers" ranged widely, and "settlers" established home ranges in new areas soon after release. Translocation caused wider propagation and intensification of HEC, and increased elephant mortality. We conclude that translocation defeats both HEC mitigation and elephant conservation goals.

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Switzerland

Related Organizations

University of Zurich
Switzerland
Smithsonian Institution
United States
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
United States
Centre for Conservation and Research
Sri Lanka
Department of Wildlife Conservation
Sri Lanka

Keywords

1000 Multidisciplinary, Conservation of Natural Resources, 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology, Science, Q, Elephants, 10207 Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, R, 1100 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 1300 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, Animals, Humans, Animal Distribution, Research Article, Sri Lanka

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