A UVM-led study on elephant poaching attracted strong media interest in the US and around the world. The research--published in Nature Communications, and co-led by UVM economist Brendan Fisher and others from UVM's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, in collaboration with a team from the World Wildlife Fund, Cambridge University and other institutions--shows that the elephant poaching crisis is costing African nations about $25 million each year in lost tourist revenue and makes the case for the positive economic return from elephant conservation in many regions of the continent. The research was covered by Voice of America, Vice, Tourism+Leisure, UPI, Pacific Standard, The Guardian, Cosmos and many other outlets.