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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered ...

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 ...