Reports
- Phase I scientific report (English version)
- Phase I scientific report (French version)
- Study on the liberation from human and livestock pressure of Lake Banzena in the Gourma of Mali (English)
- Study on the liberation from human and livestock pressure of Lake Banzena in the Gourma of Mali (French)
- Planning report (French)
- Photo reports 2010-2012
- Reconciliation report (French version)
- Reconciliation report (English version)
Outreach materials
- Teachers guide and posters
- Community brochures: Give the Elephants a Helping Hand | Save Mali’s National Treasure
- Tourist brochures
Papers
- A response to Green European Journal article titled “We need to talk about the militarization of conservation”
- Nature and Faune (English)
- Nature and Faune (French)
- Pachyderm – Impact of cattle on elephant use of key dry-season water in the Gourma of Mali By Susan Canney and Nomba Ganame
Book chapters
- Reflections of Elephants – chapter entitled The Desert Elephants of Mali by Susan Canney
- The SAGE Handbook of Action Research – chapter entitled Action Research and Ecological Practice by Peter Reason and Susan Canney
- Roe, D and Booker, F (2016) First line of defence? A review of evidence on the effectiveness of engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade. IIED, London
Interviews
- Oxford Today – One Oxford zoologist’s mission to save desert elephants from extinction
- Safari Talk – Dr. Susan Canney, the Mali Elephant Project
Mali Elephant Project in the media
- New York Times – Mali’s Desert Elephants, on Edge of Annihilation, Get a Fighting Chance
- National Geographic Voices – Ground-breaking initial success in protecting Mali’s elephants, but it must be sustained
- AR3 – A Grassroots Battle to Save Mali’s Elephants
- Oxford Today – One Oxford zoologist’s mission to save desert elephants from extinction
- “Turning the Tide in a Desert War” by Oliver Tickell in Resurgence issue 301 Manifesto for a Green Mind, January 2017
- Green Spirit Magazine: Elephant Protection Interview with Susan Canney
- The Ecologist – Why do the local people protect the elephants? (17 July 2014)
- The Dodo – In 3 Years, All These Elephants Will Be Killed, by Christina Russo
- Safaritalk – The Mali Elephant Project
- Scientific American – Mali’s Desert Elephants Face Extinction in 3 Years
- Reuter’s – Mali’s desert elephants face extinction in three years
- Malian newspaper coverage of Reconciliation report launch
- L’Essor (French) (English translation) (newspaper clipping one, newspaper clipping two)
- Le Combat (English) (French)
- L’indicateur de Renouveau (English) (French)
- Mongabay – How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty
- Africa Geographic – Restless Spirits of the Desert (2007)
- Africa Geographic – Mali Elephants at Risk (2012)
- Africa Geographic – Mali’s Desert Elephants Face Extinction (2016)
- The Guardian – Elephant deaths in Mali blamed on poaching by extremist groups, by: Alex Duval Smith, 11 February 2015
- Pangea Today – Rare elephant species decimated by poachers on motorcycles, February 16, 2015
- CMS – Communities Join Hands to Stop Elephant Poaching in Mali and Burkina Faso, 15 April 2015
- VICE News – Western Conservationists Are Ignoring Local Communities in Mission to Save ‘Cuter’ Animals
- Huffington Post – Mali’s Fragile Elephant Population at Risk, by: Stefan Simanowitz, 25 May 2013
- BBC – Poaching in northern Mali threatens rare elephant, 10 February 2015
- VICE News – Threatened by Militias and Traffickers, Mali’s Desert Elephants Could Be Extinct in 3 Years
- Smithsonian – Saving Mali’s Migratory Elephants
- VQR – The Lost Herd
- Mali : Massacre des éléphants du gourma : Ça suffit!
Briefing papers (without budgetary info)
- Regional security, community stabilisation and Natural Resource Protection: peace, reconstruction & elephants for Mali (January 2015)
- Community empowerment to protect elephants, biodiversity, livelihoods and people (January 2014)
- Preventing the development of a West African ivory trafficking route (February 2014)
Posters
- The Mali elephants: a complex socio-ecological system
- The Mali elephants: local attitudes & relevance for conservation
Graphics
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