Society's Perceptions of African Elephants and their Relative Influence towards the Conservation of Elephants☆

摘要: Abstract Africa‘s elephant population continues to decline towards extinction in the face of globally crafted conservation policies. Thus far, society questions initial design structure, contribution local communities and relevance these Using cross-sectional survey data from Zimbabwe paper investigates communities’ perceptions elephants their relative influence using multinomial logistic regression model. Results indicates that, high human-elephant conflict low revenue farming promote decimation while, observable positive direct returns conservation. The therefore concludes that save African elephants, it may be necessary engage as active main stakeholders policy formulation so internalise interests - thus avoiding errors omission commission.