Dr. Kathleen Gobush of the Center for Conservation at the University of Washington (2009) published an article that analyzed the effects of surviving elephant populations who have been subjected to poaching pressures. She analyzed the social, reproductive, and psychological effects poaching had on the elephants and concluded that the remaining elephants are extremely stressed and paranoid, causing them to react violently towards any human presence and reducing their ability to reproduce. Researcher Natasha Strydhorst (2013), on the other hand, examined the effects of the poaching before the 1989 ban on the elephant populations even generations later. She concludes that wild populations have yet to recover from even the pre-1989 poaching and will only suffer more from continued poaching as their healing family units are again torn apart and thrown back together into dysfunctional groups of stressed
Dr. Kathleen Gobush of the Center for Conservation at the University of Washington (2009) published an article that analyzed the effects of surviving elephant populations who have been subjected to poaching pressures. She analyzed the social, reproductive, and psychological effects poaching had on the elephants and concluded that the remaining elephants are extremely stressed and paranoid, causing them to react violently towards any human presence and reducing their ability to reproduce. Researcher Natasha Strydhorst (2013), on the other hand, examined the effects of the poaching before the 1989 ban on the elephant populations even generations later. She concludes that wild populations have yet to recover from even the pre-1989 poaching and will only suffer more from continued poaching as their healing family units are again torn apart and thrown back together into dysfunctional groups of stressed