Ignoring species hybrids in the IUCN Red List assessments for African elephants may bias conservation policy

Affiliations

• ¹ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. hans.bauer@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
• ² Evolutionary Ecology Group, Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. hans.bauer@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
• ³ Laboratory for Applied Ecology, Natural Resource Conservation, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin.
• ⁴ Department of HydroSciences and Environment, University Iba Der Thiam, Thiès, Sénégal.
• ⁵ Direction de la Faune, de la Chasse et des Parcs et Réserves, Ministère de l'Environnement de la Salubrité Urbaine et du Développement Durable, Niamey, Niger.
• ⁶ Direction de la Faune et des Chasses, Ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
• ⁷ National Parks Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Dakar, Senegal.
• ⁸ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁹ The Born Free Foundation, Horsham, UK.