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

Years ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen backed a project called the Great Elephant Census that highlighted a crisis for Africa’s elephant population, brought about primarily by illegal poaching.

Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

By Ryan Truscott A new study reveals how African elephants plan their elaborate journeys: they strategically choose the least ...

Learn about elephants' sharp sense of travel planning, helping them save energy and find food as they trek through their ...

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 ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered ...

Savanna elephants are surveyed by spotters in planes. A new study found large-scale declines in African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Credit ...

Anup Shah An elephant family gathers against the backdrop of an approaching storm. As they wander the savanna, elephants are thought to make vocalizations that create seismic waves in the ground.

the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening. African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population ...