there has been an 80% reduction in fruits for African forest elephants. African elephants exist in about 40 range states, ...

HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of West and Central Africa. RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic ...

This research provides the most comprehensive assessment of trends in the two species of elephants in Africa: the forest elephant ... erosion of the elephants' range finishes off remnant populations.

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa ... of populations across Africa. Although the difference between some classic forest and savannah ...

The clock is ticking to save Central Africa's forest elephants. Populations of the elusive elephants have plunged by around 80 percent inside one of the region's most important nature preserves.

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 ...