Insights into elephant habitat use reveal that energy landscapes influence movement, highlighting the need for conservation ...

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

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

The six-month, $3 million project features a newly designed 1,500 sq. ft. habitat for lions Hondo, Hatari and Azizi.

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 ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

Coutu said that some West African forest elephants still live outside the tropical rainforest and inhabited both forest and woodland savanna habitats even before the drastic disturbance to the West ...

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shares several key findings that demonstrate how African savanna elephants ... What Do Elephants Plan For? Elevation is considered an important ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct ... Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory poaching and habitat loss and encroachment. “Forest ...

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 ...