Comments on: How Many Elephants Are Left in D.R. Congo ?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:17:57 +0000

Dear all,

I’ve seen your materials tru one of our local news site, realitatea.net and we are, really, terified knowing that the elephants are killed, that our kids will not have posibility to see those animals in the natural environment.
I consider your work as something great and I will follow your info, hoping that this will change something !

Adrian

By: Baraza » DR Congo elephants down by 80% in 50 years

Baraza » DR Congo elephants down by 80% in 50 years — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:01:37 +0000

[...] further information and tables of data read the bonoboincongo blog post [...]

By: Laura Darby

Laura Darby — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:20:25 +0000

Absolutely. I should be back from this trip by the end of February if all goes well (our main goal this go-round is collecting chimp faeces) and will hopefully have something for you long before your deadline.

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:51:37 +0000

Thanks Laura,
Very interesting and do keep us updated. We are collecting corrections and additions and will plan to update at least a week before the CoCoCongo (March 12) — will you be able to get us an update by early March?

By: Laura Darby

Laura Darby — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:38:48 +0000

I’ve just had a survey team come back from forests near Likati with some interesting elephant data (and two different encounters with fresh elephant dung)

GPS:
N03.17.029
E023.53.231

I’m heading back to the region this coming Wednesday and am happy to pass on any additional information I find.

Cheers,
Laura

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:08:20 +0000

WWF-DRC just sent us a valuable reference : thank you very much Omari and thank you Michael for alerting us to it. We now have another population to plot on the map — Omari added these comments:
“Unfortunately, this elephant population is under high pressure of heavily armed bands of poachers coming as far as Mbandaka, Bandundu, Kiwkit and Ilebo. Between August and December 2008, three cases of killing of elephants by armed poachers were reported from the area!”

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:10:05 +0000

vous voyez: j’aurai dû dire “veuillez me pardonner”, n’est ce pas!

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:08:40 +0000

Oui, bien sûr. En principe on devrait écrire en anglais et en français mais — et veuillez me pardonnez — ça nous dépasse!

By: robert

robert — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:23:00 +0000

Can comments be made in French ?

By: john

john — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:18:32 +0000

Thank you Michael for this alert. We will try to get this report, and update the map and references. We are hoping that this sort of “filling in of the map” will provide a basis for a call to action.