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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shares several key findings that demonstrate how African savanna elephants ... What Do Elephants Plan For? Elevation is considered an important ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct ... Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory poaching and habitat loss and encroachment. “Forest ...

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