“This reduces the competition for nutrients so that elephants help to create bigger trees faster.” One species stands out: the African forest elephant. By toppling small trees and shrubs and ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat have led ...

LASTOURVILLE - In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local population who demand the power to stop the critically ...

It found large-scale declines in both species of African elephants – the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis) and the larger African bush elephant (L. africana). In just over half a century ...

In the Congo Basin, the second-largest rainforest in the world, the African forest elephant population has been in drastic decline for decades. This decline is the result of habitat loss caused by ...

Beginning with the conservation of African forest elephants, this collaborative effort seeks to combine IBM's technological prowess with WWF's conservation expertise to develop an AI-powered ...

When opened, they saw bags usually used for onions stuffed with succulents - around ... by around 90% over the past 30 years. The African forest elephant is on the IUCN’s red list as critically ...

The savanna elephant tips the scales at up to seven tons and stands a full meter (3.3 feet) taller at the shoulder than the African forest elephant, which lives in equatorial forests of central ...

In 2021, this species, as well as its close relative, the African forest elephant, received degraded conservation status. According to the IUCN, the forest elephant species was demoted to ...

But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The smaller, darker forest elephant ...

In the dense rainforests of central Africa, a majestic creature roams. The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) — smaller than their cousins, the African savanna elephants — holds a vital role ...