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

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

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

Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...

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

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 ...

and harder to track in their dense forest habitats. Found in Central Africa, most African forest elephants live in the Republic of Congo and Gabon. The largest of the two, African savanna ...

The average population trend for African savanna elephants was a decline ... These successes suggest ways to reverse elephant declines: tackling habitat loss, landscape conversion and ivory ...

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 ...

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