Asian Elephant Specialist Group meet starts in Malaysia

News:The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) 10th Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) Meeting has started at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah,Malaysia.

Facts:

About the Issues to be discussed at the meet:The issues to be discussed at the meeting include:

• national action plans for elephant conservation by Asian elephant range states
• best practices in managing human-elephant conflict
• mechanisms to involve group members in monitoring the illegal killing of elephants
• issues related to captive elephant welfare and sharing and learning from the African experience.
• emerging challenges to elephant conservation such as electrocution as well as solutions to deal with conflict such as early warning systems and mobile technologies.

About Asian Elephant Specialist Group(AsESG):

• The Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) is an integral part of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 
• The group aims to promote the long-term conservation of Asia’s elephants and wherever possible, the recovery of their populations to viable levels.
• The AsESG provides the best available scientifically grounded evidence to the abundance, distribution, and demographic status of Asian elephant populations in all 13 range states. 
• It p periodically compiles range-wide assessments which shall be publicly disseminated via the AsESG website and other outlets.