Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades ...

Environmentalists have urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision to cut off funding for key conservation work ...

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

The report shows that African elephant populations have fallen from an estimated 12 million a century ago, to 400,000. It adds that the decline is of concern because even in well-established and ...

In 1930, as many as 10 million wild elephants roamed huge swaths of the African continent. But decades of poaching and conflict have since decimated African elephant populations. In 2016, experts ...

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, as ...

Despite these differences, both animals are amazing creatures worth admiring. Moose. Image by Cora Leach via Unsplash The African elephant and Moose are both in danger due to various threats. Poaching ...

African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on ... ins with people under different circumstances, like hunting and poaching, resource conflict, or cordial coexistence.

Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, given the level of ivory poaching and the degree of human population growth and associated landscape modification across Africa over the past 60 years.

scientific and media reports in the last few months have served to emphasise both the long-term threat to the survival of Africa's elephants and the connection between poaching, conflict and insurgent ...