ABSTRACT
After a long period of illegal unsustainable off-take, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) was transferred to Appendix I of CITES, leading to the international ivory trade ban that came into effect in early 1990. Since 1990, two attempts have been made to assess the impact of the ban on illegal off-take of elephant (Dublin and Jachmann, 1992; Dublin et al, 1995). The results of these studies, however, were for the most part statistically inconclusive due to a lack of reliable data from the majority of sites in the six target countries covered.
