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Artist Bio
Sue Maas is a Zimbabwean born wildlife artist now living in South Africa. Growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe she became interested in wildlife and the African bush from an early age. Sue trained as a graphic artist at the Bulawayo Art School. On completion of her diploma course Sue married and she and her husband were priviledged to live and work in Mozambique, Lesotho, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Many of those years spent in farming or the safari world where wildlife was always on her door step making it possible to learn more about the animals and so develop her skill.
Sue has been involved in a number of fund raising projects on behalf of the wild life she loves over the years.
So it was an enormous privilege to be approached by Richard who asked Sue to become involved in the Invicta Wildlife project which she accepted readily.’
IUCN Red List
The African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is assessed as Endangered A2bd. Analysis of estimates from 334 localities across their global range indicates a reduction of more than 50% of the continental population in the past three generations (75 years) that is understood to be continuing and likely irreversible. The continental trend is not, however, spatially uniform; some subpopulations are increasing or stable while others are declining significantly faster than the continental rate. Many local subpopulations have been extirpated.
A generation length (GL) of 25 years is used; calculated in the standard format as the average age of mothers in the population (IUCN SPC 2019, p. 29). This figure is based on analysis of the life table of culled Savanna Elephant family groups in South Africa (Whyte 2001) and a 14-year study of Savanna Elephants in Kenya (Wittemyer et al. 2013) which generated a range of 24.1–25 years.
Subcriterion A2 is applied because some of the major causes for population reduction, such as habitat loss due to human population expansion, have not ceased and are projected to increase in coming decades as well as unlikely to be reversible. The population reduction assessment for subcriterion A2 (considering three generations back) is inferred from published survey data using a modelling approach described in the Supplementary Information document. Density and distribution estimates for the African Savanna Elephant vary in methodology, completeness, regularity, date of first survey and confidence limits. Few credible estimates exist prior to the 1970s, and there is no credible estimate for the continental population more than two generations back. For this Red List assessment, an attempt was made to model the data three generations back to 1940 (see the attached Supplementary Information for description of data that is current as of and up to the end of 2015); however, given the sparseness of information available to inform the model, such modelling was of limited value. Therefore, rather than projecting declines well beyond the available data, we made the assumption that the continental African Savanna Elephant population of three generations back (1940) was equal to that of two generations back (i.e., 1965). Additional assumptions, necessary to fill gaps in the dataset, are detailed in the attached Supplementary Information document.
Subcriterion A3 has not been applied, because although the major threats to the species are known, projecting the level of such threats 25 or more years into the future (i.e., three generations, up to a maximum of 100 years) would likely introduce high levels of uncertainty.
An assessment of population reduction according to subcriterion A4 considering two generations back and one forward is in progress by this team of Assessors (Edwards et al. in prep.). Analysis of poaching and human influence in the recent past and anticipated in the future based upon available data of two representative indices (i.e., proportion of illegal killed elephants (PIKE) and the human footprint index) are being included as covariates in the projection.
Criteria B, C and D are not relevant to the threatened status as the species currently occupies more than 20,000 km2 and there are more than 10,000 mature individuals. No quantitative analysis of the probability of extinction in the wild was conducted, and therefore criterion E does not apply.
The species is categorized as EN A2bd given the modelled estimate of population reduction and its distribution. However, considering the uncertainty of the estimate as communicated in Table 1a in the Supplementary Information and data sparsity issues during the earliest time period as explained, a category of Vulnerable (VU) is plausible (see also section 3.2.5. of the Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN SPC 2019)).
Previous Assessments of African Elephant:
This is the first assessment of the African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) as a species separate from the African Forest Elephant (L. cyclotis).
The African Elephant, as a single species, was listed as Vulnerable (VU A2a) in the 2004 and 2008 updates of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, under the same IUCN Categories and Criteria used in this assessment (Version 3.1; IUCN 2001).
Previously the African Elephant, as a single species, was listed as Endangered (EN A1b) under the IUCN Categories and Criteria Version 2.3 (IUCN 1994), in an assessment conducted in 1996 by the IUCN SSC African Elephant Specialist Group.
SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST
