By Ryan Truscott A new study reveals how African elephants plan their elaborate journeys: they strategically choose the least ...

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

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

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

Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

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 ...

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 ...

However, a new study compiling data from 1,325 surveys over 50 years has revealed a dramatic decline in elephant populations, writes George Wittemyer for The Conversation Africa. African savanna ...

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 ...

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 ...