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• - A comprehensive searchable online database of literature references.
  
• - A PBS special on the life of elephants and the ivory trade.
  
• - Basic information about history and distribution, threats, CITES status, projects.
  
• - World Wildlife Fund introduction to conservation, poaching, and the ivory trade.
  
• - Non-profit organization focussing on research, education, grass-roots conservation, monitoring and protection of African elephant populations. Includes details of projects, news, maps, links.
  
• - Image portfolio from Tembe National Elephant Park.
  
• - World Wildlife Fund species program: overview of biology and distribution, threats, and current conservation programs.
  
• - Promotes, monitors and advises on all aspects of elephant management, conservation and welfare.
  
• - About elephant behaviour, communication and conservation. Includes descriptions, sounds, photographs and video presenting the structure and content of African savanna elephant language.
  
• - Facts, images and video.
  
• - Supports conservation of Africa's elephants within the context of human needs and pressures.
  
• - Brief report on genetics of Loxodonta cyclotis.
  
• - A non-profit organization in Botswana which explores the relationship between the African Elephant and people, with an emphasis on research and educational programs aimed at reducing conflict between the two species.
  
• - African Elephant Database online, Pachyderm journal online, tools for the study and mitigation of human-elephant conflict and African Elephant Bibliography.
  
• - Articles and resources from Field Trip Earth about project to track and study elephants in northern Cameroon.
  
• - World Wildlife Fund report on conservation and management of African elephants, 1997.
  
• - Desnaring, education, and conservation of elephants and rhinoceros in Nairobi and Tsavo National Park, Kenya. Includes elephant orphan fostering program.
  
• - Findings of ecologists of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo undertaking research in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Southern Mozambique.