Elephant management; wildlife private management; elephant count; elephant distribution; water point management
Abstract :
[en] Konkombouri Hunting Zone is part of the transfrontier W–Arly–Pendjari ecosystem. Monthly dry-season
records from wildlife monitoring show that the free-ranging elephant population increased from month to
month with the progression of the dry season and the reduction of water points that still contained water.
However, with the arrival of the first important rains, elephant density continued to increase because water
and new shoots were available everywhere. In 2005 and 2006 elephant density in the Konkombouri Hunting
Zone reached the highest mean dry-season elephant density recorded in West Africa in recent decades. This
situation increases the impact on habitat close to water points and heightens human–elephant conflicts.
Research Center/Unit :
Konkombouri Monitoring Programme
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Bouché, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Forêts, Nature et Paysage > Gestion des ressources forestières et des milieux naturels
Language :
English
Title :
Dry-season status, trend and distribution of Konkombouri elephants and implications for their management, Burkina Faso
Publication date :
2007
Journal title :
Pachyderm
ISSN :
1026-2881
eISSN :
1683-5018
Publisher :
African Wildlife Foundation. Department of Information Services, Nairobi, Kenya
