1.   Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

2.   It enables villagers to protect elephants from poachers and to earn money from limited trophy hunting of a few old bulls.

3.   Many people here do not see the economic incentive in protecting elephants, especially if they are destroying crops.

4.   They explore how the structure of property rights might be changed to encourage people to protect elephants.

5.   A ban on all ivory trade was introduced nine years ago to protect African elephants, which had been run down by widespread poaching.

6.   Critics of the auctions are mainly non-African wildlife activists who want to protect elephants at all costs and fear the sales will encourage poaching.

7.   Elephants are protected in Bangladesh, but police and forest rangers can kill those declared dangerous.

8.   India banned ivory trade several years to protect the elephants.

9.   Kenyans use satellites to protect elephants.

10.   More importantly, the agency now offers communities financial incentives to protect elephants, which villagers have long viewed as threats to livestock, crops and people.