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Dame Daphne Sheldrick
Women’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 investi

•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
Whm 2013 d sheldrick zgeist pps
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-magaz
– http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/m
– http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/m
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/africanelephant/loxodonta-africana/videos.html
Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013

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Whm 2013 d sheldrick zgeist pps

  • 1. Dame Daphne Sheldrick Women’s History Month 2013 Women in Conservation Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
  • 2. 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
  • 4. Ivory trade History of Ivory Trade Battle for the Elephants - Episode 1 Ivory trade investi •What is driving the sales of illegal ivory? Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 9. David Sheldrick Wildlife Fund • Short clip Sheldrick program • A Place of Hope (rescue of elephants)
  • 10. Women that study elephants • • • • Caitlin O’Connell Andrea Turkalo Cynthia Moss Soila Sayialel – Amboseli National Park
  • 11. Video Resources • National Geographic Animal Videos – http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/the-magaz – http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/m – http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/m ar_a=1 Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013
  • 12. 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/africanelephant/loxodonta-africana/videos.html Zoe Geist: STLCC-FV WHM 2013