Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

However, a new study compiling data from 1,325 surveys over 50 years has revealed a dramatic decline in elephant populations, writes George Wittemyer for The Conversation Africa. African savanna ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their ... irreplaceable engineers of the forest and savanna from extinction.

Two distinct subspecies live across 37 African countries: the African forest elephant and the African savanna elephant (or African bush elephant), which are critically endangered and endangered ...

The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather than Central Africa as they had expected. “The isotope analysis determined that ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...