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Large wild animals that weigh typically more than 30 lb when fully grown, hunted for food, sport or profit. (Source: CORBIT / AMHER)

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Owen-Smith N, Cooper SM 1987. Palatability of woody plants to browsing ruminants in a South African savanna. Ecology 68 (2) 319 - 331

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/1939263

de Beer Y, Kilian W, Versfeld W, van Aarde RJ 2006. Elephants and low rainfall alter woody vegetation in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 64 412 - 421

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001527

van Aarde R, de Beer Y, Guldemond R 2004. Elephants, drought and woody vegetation in Namibia's Etosha National Park. Transactions of the Royal Society of SA 59 (2) 123

Website link:http://www.sabinet.co.za/abstracts/royalsa/royalsa_v59_n2_a15.html

2012. NW Game Count Poster.

Website link:http://www.nacso.org.na/resources/game-count-poster

Viljoen PJ 1989. Habitat selection and preferred food plants of a desert-dwelling elephant population in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 27 (3) 227 - 240

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1989.tb01016.x/abstract

Elephant-Human Relations Aid (EHRA).

Website link:http://www.desertelephant.org/

Save the Rhino Trust (SRT).

Website link:http://www.savetherhinotrust.org

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Spatial data.

Website link:http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data

Information System for Rare and High Value Species - IRAS.

Website link:http://www.nnf.org.na/RARESPECIES/index.html

Living Namibia - Namibian Biodiversity Database.

Website link:https://www.biodiversity.org.na/

Heck L 1955. Grosswild in Etoschaland.

African Wildlife Foundation.

Website link:http://www.awf.org/

Hauptfleisch M, Urban S 2017. Working towards a fence free Namib landscape. 46-49

Website link:http://www.news-namibia.org/index.html

Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA).

Website link:http://www.napha-namibia.com/

Charif RA, Ramey RR, Langbauer WR, Payne KB, Martin RB, Brown LM 2005. Spatial relationships and matrilineal kinship in African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) clans. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57 (4) 327-338

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-004-0867-5

Taylor A, Balfour D, Kirsty Brebner D, Coetzee R, Davies-Mostert H, Lindsey PA, Shaw J, 't Sas-Rolfes M 2017. Sustainable rhino horn production at the pointy end of the rhino horn trade debate. Biological Conservation 216 60-80

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716307583

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Seasonal distributions and social dynamics of elephants in the Hoanib River catchment, northwestern Namibia. African Zoology 38 (2) 305-316

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/38/2/EJC17882

Power RJ, Shem Compion RX 2009. Lion predation on elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana. African Zoology 44 (1) 36-44

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/44/1/EJC18103

Fennessy JT, Leggett KEA, Schneider S 2003. Distribution and status of the desert-dwelling giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis) in northwestern Namibia: short communication. African Zoology 38 (1) 184-188

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Leggett KEA, Brown LM, Ramey RR 2011. Matriarchal associations and reproduction in a remnant subpopulation of desert-dwelling elephants. Pachyderm 49 20-32

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Naidoo R, Weaver LC, Diggle RW, Matongo G, Stuart-Hill G, Thouless C 2016. Importance of local values to successful conservation: response to Jacquet and Delon. Conservation Biology 30 912-913

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12750/full

Naidoo R, du Preez P, Stuart-Hill G, Weaver LC, Jago M, Wegmann W 2012. Factors affecting intraspecific variation in home range size of a large African herbivore. Landscape Ecology 27 (10) 1523-1534

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-012-9807-3

Guerier AS, Bishop JM, Crawford SJ, Schmidt-Küntzel A, Stratford KJ 2012. Parentage analysis in a managed free ranging population of southern white rhinoceros: genetic diversity, pedigrees and management. Conservation Genetics 13 (3) 811-822

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10592-012-0331-4

Viljoen PJ 1988. The ecology of the desert-dwelling elephants Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) of the western Damaraland and Kaokoland.

Website link:https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A934855106&databaseList=638%2C283&lang=en

Baines L, Morgan ER, Ofthilfe M, Evans K 2015. Occurrence and seasonality of internal parasite infection in elephants, Loxodonta africana, in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 4 (1) 43-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224415000061

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Ministry of Environment and Tourism - Save the Rhino: Connecting conservation and communities.

Website link:https://www.savetherhino.org/africa_programmes/namibia_ministry_of_environment_and_tourism_namibia

Kahler JS, Gore ML 2015. Local perceptions of risk associated with poaching of wildlife implicated in human-wildlife conflicts in Namibia. Biological Conservation 189 49-58

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320715000567

Campbell A 1981. A comment on Kalahari wildlife and the Khukhe fence. Botswana Notes and Records 13 111-118

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979642

Williamson DT, Williamson JE 1981. An assessment of the impact of fences on large herbivore biomass in the Kalahari. Botswana Notes and Records 13 107-110

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979641

Sheppe W 1972. A note on research into mammals of the Chobe River flood-plain. Botswana Notes and Records 4 281

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979343

Child G 1972. Water and its role in nature conservation and wildlife management in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 4 253-255

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979333

von Richter W 1973. Recent publications in the field of wildlife and related topics in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 5 220-224

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979396

Raseroka BH 1975. Past and present distribution of Buffalo in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 7 131-140

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979434

Sommerlatte MWL 1975. A preliminary report on the number, distribution and movement of elephants in the Chobe National Park with notes on browse utilisation. Botswana Notes and Records 7 121-129

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979433

2002. Blue wildebeest distribution.

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Cushman SA, Chase M, Griffin C 2010. Chapter 19: Mapping Landscape Resistance to Identify Corridors and Barriers for Elephant Movement in Southern Africa. Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation 349-368

Website link:http://www.springer.com/us/book/9784431877707

Citizen Science projects: Atlas of mammals.

Website link:http://www.the-eis.com/atlas/

Brain C, Fox VEB 1994. Suspected cardiac glycoside poisoning in elephants (Loxodonta africana). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 65 173-174

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7602572

Bandyopadhyay S, Humavindu M, Shyamsundar P, Wang L 2009. Benefits to local communities from community conservancies in Namibia: an assessment. Development Southern Africa 26 (5) 733-754

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03768350903303324#.VIapSmctBHg

Kramer B, Swartz ER 2010. A new species of Slender Stonebasher within the Hippopotamyrus ansorgii complex from the Cunene River in southern Africa (Teleostei: Mormyriformes). Journal of Natural History 44 (35-36) 2213-2242

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222931003764089#.VIakHGctBHg

Brook GA, Cherkinsky A, Marais E, Todd N 2014. Rare elephant molar (Loxodonta africana zulu) from the Windhoek Spring Deposit, Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (Special Issue: A festschrift for Professor Mary Seely) 69 (3) 145-150

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Rare elephant molar from the Windhoek Spring Deposit_Namibia.pdf	1.2 MB

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2014.936329#.VHsipGctBHg

Naidoo R, Kilian JW, du Preez P, Beytell P, Aschenborn O, Taylor RD, Stuart-Hill G 2017. Evaluating the effectiveness of local- and regional-scale wildlife corridors using quantitative metrics of functional connectivity. Biological Conservation (217) 96-103

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Naidoo R, Kilian JW, du Preez P, Beytell P, Aschenborn O, Taylor RD, Stuart-Hill G Evaluating the effectiveness of local- and regional-scale wildlife corridors using quantitative metrics of functional connectivity. Biological Conservation 217 (96-103) 2017

Loutit B, Montgomery MR 1994. The Efficacy of Rhino Dehorning: Too Early to Tell. Conservation Biology (8) 923-924

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08040923.x/abstract

Jacobsohn M 1996. Balancing the cost of wildlife. Namibia Environment 1 191-195

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Lindeque M 1996. Conservation and management of elephants in Namibia. Namibia Environment 1 144-150

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Conservation and management of elephants in Namibia_1996.pdf	8.07 MB

Schlossberg S, Chase MJ, Griffin CR 2018. Poaching and human encroachment reverse recovery of African savannah elephants in south-east Angola despite 14 years of peace. PLoS ONE 13 (3) e0193469

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Poaching and human encroachment reverse recovery of African savannah elephants.pdf	7.4 MB

Schlossberg S, Chase MJ, Griffin CR 2016. Testing the Accuracy of Aerial Surveys for Large Mammals: An Experiment with African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana). PLoS ONE 11 (10) e0164904

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Lee DE, Bond ML 2016. Precision, accuracy, and costs of survey methods for giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis. Journal of Mammalogy 97 (3) 940-948

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Jachmann H 2002. Comparison of aerial counts with ground counts for large African herbivores. Journal of Applied Ecology 39 841-852

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