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

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

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants ... elephants do not have natural predators in their habitats.

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

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30th anniversary in March, marking three decades of adopting former circus and show elephants and allowing them to retire in peaceful wilderness.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...