Once inhabited by over 27 million African elephants, Africa's majestic range is now a shadow of its former glory. Forest ...

Scale is meaningful because African elephants have very large home ranges -- roaming up to 11,000 square kilometers, or more than 2.7 million acres -- and they often travel long distances out of ...

Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, given the level of ivory poaching and the degree of human population growth and associated landscape modification across Africa over the past 60 years.

The community of elephants that call Africa's Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) home once thrived there. During multiple surveys of in the 1960s and 1970s, scientists found that specific locations ...

African elephants require large landscapes and a variety of habitats to thrive, so conserving these iconic animals will require cooperation between nations and communities to protect habitat and ...

Integrating data on habitat suitability with population genetics improves the ability to map elephant movements, a study 1 by researchers from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the ...

Environmental scientists have compiled the first list of wetlands in the park. This will be useful to measure the effects of climate change.

Most of South Africa’s elephants roam vast government-protected landscapes such as Kruger National Park, Mapungubwe National ...

One Hundred Elephants Die After Watering Holes Dry Up Published Dec 13, 2023 at 11:52 AM EST Updated Dec 18, 2023 at 6:59 AM EST ...

World Elephant Day, observed annually on August 12, highlights the urgent need to protect these keystone species. Initiated ...

That was the dire situation facing elephants in the country of Eswatini in southern Africa in 2003. The wildlife officials managing a reserve in Eswatini were faced with an unimaginable choice.