“Because Gabon is thought to hold the largest remaining population of forest elephants, the implication is that forest elephants are in even more trouble than previously believed,” said John Poulsen ...

The densely-forested central African country is home to about half the world's roughly 100,000 remaining forest elephants, the smallest species of elephant and coveted by ivory dealers for their ...

such as Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, where populations have stabilized in recent years. Even still, African forest elephants now inhabit just a quarter of their historic range.

Gabon's old growth trees are critical for the world as they hold more carbon than similar forests in the Amazon - they are also home to around 60% of Africa's surviving forest elephants.

Solar-powered electric fences are being installed in Gabon to help farming communities coexist with forest elephants – and Cop28 could provide a platform to help the project kick on. The fences ...

Researchers Document Huge Drop in African Elephants in a Half Century By Will Dunham (Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent ...

Gabon is a biodiversity hotspot, including hosting one of the largest populations of the critically endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Now, researchers from the University ...

RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Central Africa Republic and ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

But Gabon hopes to show how to build an industry ... it could encroach on crucial habitat for great apes, forest elephants, and other threatened species. Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE IndonesiaIn ...

The Minkébé National Park, in turn, is home to Gabon’s biggest elephant population and to probably the largest forest elephant population in Africa. “At least until these data came out,” she said.