A hush falls over the African savanna as a group of elephants stands quietly around the bones of one of their own. Their ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants ... However, sometimes they conflict with humans, such as farmers. A herd of elephants can destroy farms, feeding on crops and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Many African elephant populations are already severely depleted due to other threats, such as habitat loss, human-elephant conflict ... A comprehensive survey of Africa’s savanna elephants, published ...

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 ...