Potential impact of the US Endangered Species Act on elephant management and conservation

Abstract

Only the abstract of this paper was published. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), the legislation which deals with the importation of sport hunted elephant trophies into the United States and therefore controls the most lucrative foreign market available to African range states who in part depend on such funds to finance their conservation programmes, has been undergoing review since 1994. The review has caused controversy within the United States, but its outcome could impinge on foreign money available to a number of range states, particularly those in Southern Africa, which have no say whatsoever in the review.