Efforts to reconnect elephant corridors must be carefully planned

Advancements of landscape ecology, not just expert knowledge, need to be tapped into for identifying and restoring such corridors

Nigeria risks losing all its forest elephants – what we found when we went looking for them

Habitat fragmentation, forest degradation, illegal hunting, genetic isolation and human-elephant conflict means the future of these elephants is …

Climate impact in Zimbabwe: Elephants, other wildlife begin early mass migration to escape drought conditions

Poor rains in preceding rainy season, water sources ran dry in August

Fossil tracks and trunk marks reveal signs of ancient elephants on South Africa’s coast

Such fossil tracksites can tell us many things about what happened on those ancient dunes and beaches and the ancient environment that the …

Human-driven speciation: A peek into how we may alter the morphology of African elephants

Anthropogenic activities such as global warming, poaching, mining, deforestation and noise pollution will form a more wrinkly, hairier, tuskless, …

Kenya’s first wildlife census report: 5 species critically endangered

The report recommends a population survey every three years and annual budgets for monitoring and management of wildlide

African countries square up for battle over future of ivory trade ban

Southern African nations are seeking permission to trade in ivory, in direct opposition to the wishes of their northern neighbours

Wild elephant tests positive for herpes virus in Odisha forest

In 2019, five elephants had died within 33 days in Odisha after testing positive for herpes

Single criminal syndicate could be behind ivory poaching in east, southern Africa: Study

A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour makes use of genetic analysis of seized elephants tusks to reach new conclusions

Poaching, habitat loss push Africa’s elephants to the brink

IUCN declares African forest and savanna elephants as ‘critically endangered’ and ‘endangered’ based on latest population …

Almost 230,000 elephants killed for tusks in less than six years, reveals new report

'Out of Africa' seeks to fill the knowledge gap on how the trade functions in an organised way and shows ways it can be curbed