In The Footprints of Giants: Tracking Elephants in Myanmar
Earlier this year I began working at the Conservation Ecology Centre within the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. A large part of my work relates to the ecology and conservation of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the wild. Asian elephants are threatened by habitat loss and poaching throughout their geographical range. As human populations expand and forests are cleared for agriculture and plantations such as oil palm and rubber, this inevitably brings elephant