Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis ...

The elephant population in Kruger has drastically risen in the last century. Park managers must now contend with an ...

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest land animal on Earth. A mature male may stand up to 13 feet tall at the shoulder and ...

In 1930, approximately 10 million wild elephants were in Africa. Since then, elephant populations have dwindled. Today, these declines still continue.

Gaborone — Five southern African countries, with more than half the continent's elephants, are conducting a first-ever aerial census to determine the elephant population and how to protect it.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed a dramatic decline in African elephant populations over the past 53 years. Researchers conducted comprehensive ...

Integrating data on habitat suitability with population genetics improves the ability to map elephant movements, a study 1 by researchers from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the ...

All the populations of savanna elephants in the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa showed declines. Many populations in the northern savannas of Chad, Nigeria , Cameroon and Mali have been lost.

The elephant population in southern Africa has increased by 5% since 2016 to nearly 228,000, according to results of a first ever aerial census conducted last year. However, ...

But in southern Africa, elephant populations rose at 42% of the surveyed sites. "We have seen real success in a number of places across Africa, ... Site Map. Store.

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

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 ...