As "ecosystem engineers," they help shape their habitat and maintain biodiversity through seed dispersal and contributing to forest regeneration. African forest elephants feed on ... to the formation ...
AN average decline of 90 percent for the African elephant population, a 70 percent decline for the savannah elephant ...
NAIROBI: The population of both Savannah and forest elephant species has declined sharply in the past half a century across ...
More information: Alida de Flamingh et al, Integrating habitat suitability modeling with gene flow improves delineation of ...
African elephants are the largest ... Being the largest land animal, elephants play an important part in balancing the ...
DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... trade pressures, habitat conversion due to the expansion of natural resource extraction and logging, and civil ...
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 ...
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 ...