African Elephants and Big Trees
Abstract
Growing African elephant populations have renewed concern about damage to large trees in protected areas such as Kruger National Park. The article argues that focusing only on elephant numbers oversimplifies a complex ecological issue and emphasizes that elephants are ecosystem engineers whose impacts help shape dynamic savanna landscapes, highlighting the need for adaptive conservation management- text
- African elephants
- large trees
- savanna ecosystems
- Kruger National Park
- elephant population growth
- elephant impacts on trees
- ecosystem engineers
- biodiversity conservation
- artificial waterholes
- adaptive ecosystem management
- protected area management
- elephant–tree interactions
- fire and herbivory
- savanna landscape change
- conservation policy
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Last time updated on 23/04/2026
This paper was published in WBI Studies Repository (WellBeing International).
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