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Dame Daphne SheldrickWomen’s History Month 2013
Women in Conservation
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
Biology and behavior of elephants
Elephant Airheads (Animal Planet's Fooled by Nature)•Important for ecosystems – mud baths, uprooting of shrubs, eat salts/minerals, African eggplant•Musth, a male bull mates with a receptive female in a group
Family groups with calves
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/battle-for-elephants/?ar_a=1 Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
Ivory trade History of Ivory Trade
Battle for the Elephants - Episode 1 Ivory trade investigation
•What is driving the sales of illegal ivory?
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
Ivory trade • Worldwide ban on ivory trade 1989• In 1999 and 2008 the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) allowed two sanctioned sales of ivory. (NG http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/history-ivory-trade/?ar_a=1 )
• Estimated 25,000 – 40,000 elephants killed 2012 (NG, EOL)
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
Conservation of elephants• IUCN: conservation status of African Elephant is
vulnerable, Asian Elephant endangered; threated by loss of habitat as well– http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=7140
• Conservation efforts: – habitat management– species protection, – collaborations of range states to
manage transboundary populations – Zoos, programs to support
raising of orphaned elephants
Dame Daphne Sheldrick • Her autobiography• Grew up in Kenya, farm with many
different animals around– Given young bushbuck to nurture age 3
• Married twice, 2 daughters• Took care of orphaned animals,
developed milk formula for rhino & elephant infants
• Second husband David well-known warden of Tsavo NP; died 1977, DSWT established
• Began nursery Nairobi NP• Appointed Dame Commander of the
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
David Sheldrick Wildlife Fund
• Short clip Sheldrick program
• A Place of Hope (rescue of elephants)
Women that study elephants
• Caitlin O’Connell• Andrea Turkalo• Cynthia Moss• Soila Sayialel – Amboseli National Park
Video Resources
• National Geographic Animal Videos– http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/the-m
agazine/the-magazine-latest/ngm-orphaned-elephants/
– http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/mammals-animals/elephants/battle-elephants-ep4-ivory-room/
– http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/history-ivory-trade/?ar_a=1
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
Video Resources
• PBS– http://www.pbs.org/programs/battle-elephants/
• BBC Earth– http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCEarth/videos?
query=elephants
• ARKIVE– http://www.arkive.org/african-elephant/
loxodonta-africana/videos.html
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013