He said the survey eventually could be expanded to study, and offer protection to, other endangered animals such as gorillas and rhinos. Another survey planner, Richard Barnes, spent decades in Ghana making systematic counts of elephant dung piles to chronicle the animals' presence and abundance, and he believes that now is the time to attempt acoustic monitoring. The first phase of the forest elephant acoustic monitoring is supported by a Species Action grant from World Wildlife Fund and is conducted at the Bioacoustics Research Program, a unit of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. During last month's gathering, which was sponsored by the Cornell laboratory, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society and Conservation International, the prospective collaborators wrote proposals to fund the remaining phases. All organisms, large and small, are linked.
Elephants just happen to be one of the bigger links.
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