A problems analysis of human-elephant interactions
Author Identifier (ORCID)
Noel Scott: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-2563
Abstract
Elephants face significant contemporary problems, primarily driven by human activities including human population pressure on their natural habitats, intensive industrialized land use often based on monospecies culture, climate change, poaching and hunting. This book documents some effective projects which enhance tourists' enjoyment of temporary proximity to captive elephants, or those living in relative freedom in restricted areas such as national parks. All elephant species are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Threatened Species. In the early 20th century there were about 12 million African elephants, but by the mid-2020s there were fewer than 400,000. Elephants had probably numbered about a million in the precolonial era in Thailand, but now there are fewer than 40,000. Resolution of human-elephant conflict and promotion of peaceful coexistence requires a simultaneous focusing of management efforts on site-specific considerations and strategic plans at the landscape level.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
6-5-2025
Publication Title
Elephant Welfare in Global Tourism
Publisher
CABI International
School
School of Business and Law
Copyright
subscription content
First Page
1
Last Page
21
Comments
Laws, E., Scott, N., & Koldowski, J. (2025). A problems analysis of human–elephant interactions. Elephant welfare in global tourism (pp. 5–21). CABI. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781836990093.0001