As "ecosystem engineers," they help shape their habitat and maintain biodiversity through seed dispersal and contributing to forest regeneration. African forest elephants feed on leaves ...

African elephants are the largest ... Being the largest land animal, elephants play an important part in balancing the ...

Among key findings, it includes an average decline of 90 percent for the African elephant population, a 70 percent decline for the savannah elephant population and a combined average decline of 77 ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter ... THREATS: Forest elephants are threatened by historical and current rampant poaching, ...

A new study reveals alarming declines in African elephant populations, with savanna elephants down 70% and forest elephants down 90% since 1964. Poaching and habitat loss are the primary drivers ...

The trunk of an African elephant is a remarkable and multi functional organ. below are some interesting facts about this ...

1994 - only since this year have we been able to see their natural migration routes 22 months - gestation period of the African Elephant "Musth" is the testosterone-fuelled frenzy that prompts ...

AN average decline of 90 percent for the African elephant population, a 70 percent decline for the savannah elephant ...

African elephant numbers have declined by up to 90% over the last 50 years, reveals new research. Poaching and habitat loss ...

In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local ...

And scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space ... The breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.

New images of "Osh" show him at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. It's the country's largest natural-habitat refuge developed specifically for Asian and African elephants. Photos below show ...