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

loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... more rounded foreheads and less curvature in their spines. HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of ...

The continuous loss of habitat also means fewer areas to feed for these gigantic animals. Over the past 30 years, there has ...

African forest elephants are smaller, darker, and harder to track in their dense forest habitats. Found in Central Africa, most African forest elephants live in the Republic of Congo and Gabon.

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

The clock is ticking to save Central Africa's forest elephants. Populations of the elusive elephants have plunged by around 80 percent inside one of the region's most important nature preserves.

A new study has revealed that African Elephants have an extraordinary ability to meet their colossal food requirements as efficiently as possible. Data from over 150 elephants demonstrated that these ...