Figure 3: Comparing rates of return in African elephant conservation to other investments.
From: Estimating economic losses to tourism in Africa from the illegal killing of elephants
Mean rates of return to tourism from investing in efforts to reduce elephant poaching in central (green), west (blue), southern (yellow) and east (brown) Africa, along with a sample of rates of return estimated for investments in education (white bars24), agriculture (grey bars25), electricity (horizontal cross-hatched bars26) and infrastructure (angled cross-hatched bars26) in 33 African elephant range state countries (country abbreviations on bottom axis of figure).
