Saving elephants adds to the protection program as the threats to elephants evolve and tracking technology have been developed and which do not only tells us how fast elephants move through certain areas, often comparative to the perceived level of threat but it can also give us the exact positions of where families and vulnerable bulls are thus allowing concentration of effort. In environment where tourism and pastoralism are the two activities with the highest economic potential, communities

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... ave long had to grapple with retrogressive cultural practices like cattle rustling which bear down heavily on the security for people and wildlife thus reducing their prospects even. The lust for ivory and the situation in Africa have created what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history and there is fear that the survival of the species is at stake. For this reason zoo industry is starting to wake up and is beginning to develop more elephant-friendly environments. In an effort to stop the extinction of its elephant in particular and wildlife in general, the government of Cameroon protects itself against elephant poachers by sending the army to its national park and also deploying more Eco guards to its parks.