Mn. Tchamba, HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS OF THE HUMAN ELEPHANT CONFLICT IN THE WAZA-LOGONE REGION, CAMEROON, WEST-AFRICA, Biological Conservation, 75(1), 1996, pp. 35-41
Increasing elephant population coupled with the rapid human population
growth and the expansion of agricultural land has escalated human/ele
phant conflict in the Waza-Logone Region. This paper analyses the magn
itude of the conflict and examines its development in time. Elephant d
amage to crops has doubled between 1992 and 1993 in the Kaele and Mind
if areas and caused increasing loss of human life. The present situati
on is likely to worsen unless the control of 'problem animals' and the
management of Waza National Park are improved, a conservation educati
on programme is developed and an adequate compensation scheme designed
. It is also essential to determine elephant movements and home-ranges
and to identify causes of their migrations.