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 ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

They were men of iron nerve, unerring aim and, gazed at through a modern lens, it seems they were also capable of unbearable cruelty.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

SURVEYING elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

However, a new study compiling data from 1,325 surveys over 50 years has revealed a dramatic decline in elephant populations, writes George Wittemyer for The Conversation Africa. African savanna ...