Reliable data about the true number of African forest elephants is difficult to come by due to their thick forest habitats, but estimates suggest that their population is around 150,000 ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... more rounded foreheads and less curvature in their spines. HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of ...

loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two ...

Legal markets present significant enforcement and resource challenges to governments, including the need to better secure ...

Elephants are crucial to wildlife ecosystems, and they act as ecosystem engineers that shape habitats ... African bush elephants and Asian elephants as endangered species, while African forest ...

Coutu said that some West African forest elephants still live outside the tropical rainforest and inhabited both forest and woodland savanna habitats even before the drastic disturbance to the West ...

This remarkable photograph above of the critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) was captured using a camera trap. The image is included in photographer Will Burrard ...

Today, according to a study by Kouakou et al., published in PLOS ONE in October, extensive habitat loss and poaching have left a mere 225 forest elephants in the country. The study authors state that ...