The Economist

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the scientist who saved the elephants

The numbers were horrifying. The censuses showed Africa’s elephant population crashing in number from 1.3m in 1979 to 600,000 ...
AOL

Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...
Daily Maverick

Small group of South African elephants delivers outsized research results

In Limpopo, a herd of seven tame elephants has advanced the cause of science like few others have done. The latest finding is ...
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African Elephants: The Largest Animal on Earth

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

DNA methods help uncover further African Forest Elephants – but species remains critically endangered

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...
WESH

Animal Kingdom's 2-month-old African elephant makes park debut

OH THAT IS SO MUCH FUN! ALSO SO SO EXCITING! A BABY ELEPHANT IS NOW EXPLORING THE GROUNDS OF THE SAVANNAH AT DISNEY’S ANIMAL KINGDOM. LOOK AT THE PARK’S NEWEST AND CUTEST ADDITION. KHERSON. OH MY ...
Reuters

Africa forest elephants may take almost a century to recover from poaching: study

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...

Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study ...