#Elephant conservation status 

When you listen voices and campaign toward conservation of wildlife you will just hear only elephant and rhino poaching, focusing on "Elephant", for example in Ruaha National Park the current population is 4,200 dropped from 8,500 in 2014,+50% drop in a year (source:http://www.itv.com/news/search/?q=elephant+poaching+ruaha). This proves that in near future, 2016 may will have zero or few elephant remained in Ruaha National Park. Considering the effort that the bodies and agencies is making in conservation but from this trend it is true that this might open up a chance to private ranches for tourism companies.

net for trapping crop raiding animals-Kilwa

Most of the conservationist knows there is something wrong somewhere in protection of elephants. I believe so because if this illegal killing of elephant for ivory continues our grand-children will not see or knows what a real elephant looks like.

I met a farmer while I was collecting data for UCL in Kilwa, (southern east of Tanzania), he told me farmers are not worrying about elephant destroying their crops because there are some people doing a good job of hunting them for tusk business-they are more concerned about baboons and pigs. Kilwa community are depending  in agriculture as source of income and livelihood through sesame and maize cultivation. "we are facing problems from baboons, monkeys and pigs compare to 2005 where there was a lot of elephants, I am happy there is no elephant eating our crops but unhappy because there is a lot of baboon and monkeys destroying our crops now". This is a good indicator of significant change of Elephant population. I am not sure about other region but I think local communities have something to say about elephants.

More campaign to revolve the situation is needed. More effort and community involvement is needed.  Join the movement to support conservation in Tanzania.

-Lost in Africa.
**conservation for present and future generation**