A new study has revealed how the loss of experienced individual elephants stops the knowledge transfer between generations, ...

A new scientific review has revealed that the loss of experienced elephants—especially matriarchs—cripples the ability of ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while ...

An estimated 189 African forest elephants are now living in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, according to the findings of a recent survey. The last reliable population estimate was conducted nearly ...

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 ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...

The biodiversity of our planet is under increasing pressure from human activities and climate change. Several species remain ...

The Forest Department has launched efforts to expand profiling of wild elephants to all forest divisions with elephant presence, data of which will be used for mitigating negative interactions ...

which found that forest elephants are critically endangered and savannah elephants are endangered. Unlike the IUCN, however, the rule fails to recognize forest and savannah African elephants as ...