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. Released at the world’s largest ...

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 ...

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, ...

World Elephant Day falls on Aug. 12 every year, and this year's observance arrives with roughly 400,000 African elephants and as few as 40,000 Asian elephants left in the wild.

Nigeria’s worsening wildlife crisis has come under renewed scrutiny following the premiere of Wild Africa, with the new ...

By David Brown A growing human population, expanding croplands, and drier conditions driven by climate change within ...

According to the Maryland Zoo, the move will benefit the African elephant population across North America by opening up space ...

An international conservation organization has listed African elephants as critically endangered after a sharp population decline. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of ...

Elephants in Rwanda. In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analysed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...