Savanna elephants have declined by about 70% and forest elephants by about 90% on average in the surveyed sites. "The loss of large mammals is a significant ecological issue for Africa and the ...

WASHINGTON— Newly surfaced video shows Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, trying to kill an endangered savanna elephant in Botswana during a trophy hunt.

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

According to the IUCN, African elephants have an estimated population of about 415,000. Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside ...

African forest elephants are now critically endangered, an update from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals. Savanna elephants are also endangered. And "declines ...

There are two extant species of elephants: the African savanna elephant and the Asian elephant. The African elephant is the largest land mammal on Earth; the Asian elephant is slightly smaller.

A survey has found populations of elephant, gorillas and chimpanzees in and around two national parks in southeastern ...

The team also supports recognizing forest elephants as a species distinct from African savanna elephants, which is supported by morphological and genetic evidence. Poulsen is still optimistic that ...

When government troops came to challenge them, there was fighting on the ground, rocket shelling of the park headquarters, carnage across the savanna. In addition to the elephant slaughter ...