Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior ...

EHRA releases 2024 annual report An NGO warns that growing pressure from tourists on a declining free-roaming elephant population has reached unsustainable levels. Francoise Steynberg In its 2024 ...

In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

It's not a sight you see every day: 100 life-size Indian elephant sculptures lining Santa Monica Boulevard. Their goal: to ...

Asian and African elephants, though related, exhibit key differences. African elephants are larger with fan-shaped ears and tusks in both sexes, inhabiting savannas.

The Poaching Rate of African Elephants Was Highest in 2011, Then It Gradually Declined (ScienceDaily) Despite a reprieve from poaching, the elephant population remains tiny at 350,000 elephants, and ...

African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population trend for African savanna elephants was a decline of 70%.

In reaction, 26 African nations with elephant populations, supported by other countries and numerous NGOs, have submitted a proposal to halt any trade in elephants and their products.

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while most of the African savanna elephant population is spread through the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

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 ...

A new study reveals alarming declines in African elephant populations, with savanna elephants down 70% and forest elephants down 90% since 1964. Poaching and habitat loss are the primary drivers ...