African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

April 16 (Reuters) - The largest genomic study of African elephants to date has found that both species - savanna and forest elephants - remain in generally good genetic health despite long-term ...

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations in Africa as poaching. Until recently, those warnings have often been ...

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

Wildlife conservation often focuses on numbers. How many animals are left, how quickly populations are growing or shrinking, and whether species are at risk of extinction. But what is happening ...

These gentle giants are not only powerful in size but also remarkable in mind. African elephants are highly intelligent, emotional, and social animals. They live in close family groups, care deeply ...