(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...
A $7 million, comprehensive census of African elephants has found that the population decreased by nearly a third between 2007 and 2014. The Great Elephant Census was conducted over three years, and ...
Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...
LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...
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Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study
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, as ...
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa — Crack! Crack! The familiar sound pierces the bush as elephants bring down another acacia tree in Kruger National Park. Recently, the sound easily could be mistaken ...
The overall African elephant population plummeted by over 20 per cent in the past decade, falling to an estimated 415,000 mainly due to a dramatic surge in ivory poaching. According to the IUCN, ...
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