Breaking! Elephants Are Still The Most Poached Species According To A New Study By AWF

Elephants area unit still the first stewed species for international change desert Africa’s U.N. instructional, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) BiosphereReserves, despite intense conservation efforts, a three-year project by the African life Foundation (AWF) has found. The project, titled region Reserves as Model Regions for Anti‐Poaching incontinent (BRAPA), was commissioned by the German administrative unit for Nature Conservation (BfN) in December 2015 to assess the standing, factors, and drivers of cookery in region Reserves and to develop policy interventions to mitigate the pressure and shield life. Poaching levels given the impression to be high or high by region Reserve Managers and selected officers in thirty-six of the seventy reserves that took half within the study. Major driving factors known are a financial condition, increasing human population, and institutional and governance challenges.
The study leaders, Nathan Gichohi and Sylvia Wasige of AWF, expressed issues concerning cookery trends.
 “The scale and extent of cookery of picture species in Sub‐Saharan continent are escalating and straining anti‐poaching efforts designed to stem the matter. Life cookery and trafficking not solely debilitates, however conjointly threatens several species. Fighting this illicit trade needs serious money and alternative resources for the protection of the targeted species,” they warned in a very statement.
Poaching occurred altogether selected zones of the region Reserves, however preponderantly in buffer and transition zones, and affected a minimum of a hundred and five species of mammals, reptiles, fish and birds. “Worryingly, native extinction of thirteen species as a result of cookery was rumored in six region Reserves. cookery as a threat imperils the survival of each picture species, such as elephants, rhinos, pangolins and alternative listed species,” they added.
Mammals found to be the first stewed species, as they're the supply of (bushmeat) for many of the communities living adjacent to the region Reserves. In most instances, folks kill wild animals for meat. Additionally, a general reason for cookery is that the high industrial price of some species, providing financial gain to families.

he study found anti-poaching measures were operating, with over one,700 poachers arrested between 2011 and 2015, in fifteen region reserves because of increased enforcement. The report notes that the war against cookery can't win with a one-size-fits-all approach. Ground patrols, fast response units, and community participation cited because the handiest anti‐poaching methods.
To stop cookery in region Reserves, the study proposes the subsequent key policy interventions:
•    Development of a legal framework to guide agencies on the property utilization of resources in region Reserves
•    Increased and improved community participation within the management and possession of life resources and enforcement
•    The development of inter-agency enforcement mechanisms for collaboration at national, regional and international levels, to combat cookery in region Reserves.