Researchers unveiled on Monday what they called the most comprehensive assessment of the status of the two African elephant species - the savanna elephant and forest elephant - using data on populatio ...

African elephants face population decline due to habitat loss and poaching, highlighting urgent conservation needs.

Researchers have monitored the numbers of forest and savanna elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis, L. africana) in different parts of Africa since the 1960s. However, few stud­­ies have compiled all ...

(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 ...

It found large-scale declines in both species of African elephants – the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis) and the larger African bush elephant (L. africana). In just over half a century ...

BARIPADA: In Mayurbhanj, forest field staff and their seniors are burning midnight oil with 140-strong elephant herds out there in Baripada and Karanjia divisions. Yes, it’s winter and that time ...

Krishnagiri: A decomposed carcass of a male elephant was found in the Urigam Reserve Forest at Hosur Forest Division here on Monday. The elephant likely succumbed to injuries it suffered in an ...

Mwangome said she and many farmers live in perpetual fear that these 8-ton animals would come storming in to eat and trample ...

The remains of a 30-year-old male elephant were found in the Urigam Reserve Forest here on Monday. The stench from the carcass led a local to alert the Forest Department. A forest team inspected ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The deaths of ten elephants still remain a mystery as forest department is yet to reach any conclusion as reports of elephant samples sent to Hyderabad and some other labs ...

A new study has analyzed 53 years of population survey data and found large-scale declines in most populations of both species of African elephants. From 1964–2016, forest elephant populations ...