The current status of human-elephant conflict in Kenya

Summarises the present human-elephant conflict situation in Kenya. The estimated population of 24,000 animals is much less that two decades earlier, but the interactions with the expanding human population, particularly that which is agriculturally based have far greater economic and social ramifications.

• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Pachyderm

• Publication date

  1995-06-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.69649/pachyderm.v19i1.804
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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