African forest elephants are smaller and inhabit rainforests ... but other threats include habitat loss and the human-elephant conflict that arises as a result. The main threat that elephants ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species ... Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory poaching and habitat loss and encroachment.

loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two ...

Today, according to a study by Kouakou et al., published in PLOS ONE in October, extensive habitat loss and poaching have left a mere 225 forest elephants in the country. The study authors state that ...

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 ...

Coutu said that some West African forest elephants still live outside the tropical rainforest and inhabited both forest and woodland savanna habitats even before the drastic disturbance to the West ...

Forest elephant populations throughout Central and West Africa have declined from 700,000 to 100,000 animals over the past several decades, primarily due to poaching and habitat loss. In Central ...

This remarkable photograph above of the critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) was captured using a camera trap. The image is included in photographer Will Burrard ...