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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...