Legal markets present significant enforcement and resource challenges to governments, including the need to better secure ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants ... However, sometimes they conflict with humans, such as ...

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

as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered. Increased human activity has further fragmented their habitats, so understanding how they move ...

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

A new aerial survey found that African savanna elephants have declined at a rate of 27,000 elephants per year -- about 8 percent of the population -- with a total of 144,000 savanna elephants lost ...

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 ...

Anup Shah An elephant family gathers against the backdrop of an approaching storm. As they wander the savanna ... as Kenya’s human population has tripled. Because cheetahs hunt and roam across ...

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

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shares several key findings that demonstrate how African savanna ... elephants’ preference for water availability may change based on additional ...

The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather than Central Africa as they had expected. “The isotope analysis determined that ...

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana ... that’ll cost him about an hour of foraging.” Carel Verhoef, a human-elephant conflict management specialist who works in Kenya, Tanzania ...