Elephant Ivory Cache
Explore how to integrate ecology, ethics, and biotechnology into a biology classroom by basing a collaborative lab experience on real research on African elephant conservation. Students discover how modern biomolecular research tools can help conserve a species, in this case the African elephant. Students also consider the perspectives of various stakeholders and the historical context of conservation in Africa to better understand the challenges of solving the problem of elephant poaching.
Topics
- keystone species
- elephant conservation
- conservation strategy
- population survey
- survey method
- elephant
- elephant distribution
- population distribution
- causal loop model
- conservation efforts
- digital model
- modeling