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Contents

1 Chair reports / Rapports des Présidents

1 African Elephant Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Eléphants d’Afrique - Holly T. Dublin

11 African Rhino Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Rhinos d’Afrique - Martin Brooks

5 Asian Rhino Specialist Group report / Rapport du Groupe Spécialiste des Rhinos d’Asie - Bibhab K. Talukdar

18 Research

18 Quantifying forest elephant social structure in Central Africa bai environments - Vicki Fishlock, Phyllis C. Lee, Thomas Breuer

28 An elephant survey in Digya National Park, Ghana, and implications for conservation and management - Bright B. Kumordzi, William Oduro, Samuel K. Oppong, Emmanuel Danquah, Adrian Lister, Moses K. Sam

36 Errors that occur when using photo-identification to identify individual black rhinos - Felix Patton, Martin Jones

46 Yemen’s attitudes towards rhino horn and jambiyas - Lucy Vigne, Esmond Martin

55 Injuries of free ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana africana) in various ranges of Kenya - V. Obanda, D. Ndeereh, D. Mijele, I. Lekolool, S. Chege, F. Gakuya, P. Omondi

60 An update on crop raiding by elephants at Bia Conservation Area, Ghana from 2004 to 2006 - Samuel K. Oppong, Emmanuel Danquah, Moses K. Sam

66 Survey of the ivory items for retail sale in Addis Ababa in 2008 - Lucy Vigne, Esmond Martin

73 Management

73 Biological management of the high density black rhino population in Solio Game Reserve, central Kenya - Felix Patton, Petra Campbell, Edward Parfet

81 Minimizing competition by removing elephants from a degraded Ngulia rhino sanctuary, Kenya - Benson Okita-Ouma, Dominic Mijele, Rajan Amin, Francis Gakuya, David Ndeereh, Isaac Lekolool, Patrick Omondi, Daniel Woodley, Moses Litoroh, Juma Bakari, Richard Kock

89 Rhino notes

89 Rhino population sizes and trends - Richard Emslie

97 Field note

97 Field notes about human-elephant conflict in the southern buffer zone of the Okavango Delta, Botswana - Julien E.S. Marchais

99 MIKE update

99 Progress in the Implementation of the Cites Mike Programme in Africa - Tom De Meulenaer

103 Book review

103 Encounters with the African rhinoceros: a chronological survey of bibliographical and iconographical sources on rhinoceroses in southern Africa from 1795 to 1875: reconstructing views on classification and changes in distribution - Esmond Martin

105 Tributes

105 A tribute to Nico van Strien - Bibhab K. Talukdar

106 A tribute to Hezy Shoshani - Iain Douglas-Hamilton

108 Guidelines for contributors

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