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)

 

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Outreach materials

• Teachers guide and posters
• Community brochures: Give the Elephants a Helping Hand | Save Mali’s National Treasure
• Tourist brochures

 

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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

 

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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

 

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Interviews

• Oxford Today – One Oxford zoologist’s mission to save desert elephants from extinction
• Safari Talk – Dr. Susan Canney, the Mali Elephant Project

 

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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!

 

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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)

 

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Posters

• The Mali elephants: a complex socio-ecological system
• The Mali elephants: local attitudes & relevance for conservation

 

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Graphics

• Elephant migration map
• Outreach concept – creating a vision
• Causes of conflict
• Happy elephants & happy communities