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 ...

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 largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their ... irreplaceable engineers of the forest and savanna from extinction.

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 ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...

Closely related to African savanna elephants, the smaller, more elusive and critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) roam Central Africa’s rainforests, holding them ...

African wild dogs were lost entirely ... carnage across the savanna. In addition to the elephant slaughter, thousands of zebras and other big animals were killed for food or trigger-happy amusement.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...