African Elephant Status Report 2016: An update from the African Elephant Database

Citation

Thouless CR, Dublin HT, Blanc JJ, Skinner DP, Daniel TE, Taylor RD, Maisels F, Frederick HL & Bouche P (2016) African Elephant Status Report 2016: An update from the African Elephant Database. African Elephant Status Report (AESR), 5. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. https://www.iucn.org/news/poaching-behind-worst-african-elephant-losses-25-years-%E2%80%93-iucn-report

Abstract
This is the fifth printed African Elephant Status Report (AESR) produced by the African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). Like its predecessors, the AESR 2016 is based on data from the African Elephant Database (AED), the most comprehensive database on the status of any species of mammal in the wild. This is the first comparison of continental populations between 2006 and 2015 across 37 range states of the African elephant. Importantly, this report not only provides information on changes in elephant numbers but also, because it is spatial, shows where these changes have taken place.