This day serves to emphasise the importance of these magnificent creatures and the urgent need to tackle issues like habitat ... elephants and Asian elephants as endangered species, while African ...

and forest elephants by a staggering 90%. These losses are especially pronounced in northern and eastern Africa due to intense poaching pressures and habitat loss. Despite some success in ...

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the African forest ... elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered. Increased human activity has further fragmented their habitats ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

It is the habitat of many endemic endangered species, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted or 'false' crocodile. Description is ...

It’s thought to be the “size of something between that of a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros and an elephant ... Central Africa knew of it for millennia. “Even then, African facts were ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

elephant, hippopotamus and red-fronted gazelle as well as large concentrations of herbivores. This Park is an interesting example of a “crossroads” where the species from savanna communities of East ...

The latest research count was done in 2016; the African Elephant Status Report estimated 415,428 elephants living in Africa. This is a combined number of African bush and African forest elephants ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat ... Scientists believe most of this forest was probably elephant habitat in the past, but poaching and human encroachment ...