The Africa-wide Great Elephant Census of 2016 produced shocking findings: a decimated elephant population whose numbers were continuing to plummet. What actions can make the difference, before it's too late? Illustrated throughout with color photographs, this book contains contributions from a worldwide group of researchers, conservationists, filmmakers, and journalists. Their essays here address some of the successful conservation efforts, but also the challenges to elephants' continued survival, most notably from poaching.