Learn about elephants' sharp sense of travel planning, helping them save energy and find food as they trek through their ...

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

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 ...

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

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening. African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population ...

Two distinct subspecies live across 37 African countries: the African forest elephant and the African savanna elephant (or African bush elephant), which are critically endangered and endangered ...

According to the IUCN, African elephants have an estimated population of about 415,000. Three-quarters of this estimate are ...

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 ...

the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening. African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population ...