Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

Due to drought, climate change & scarce resources in Kenya, elephants are getting closer to villages in their hunt for food.

African and Asian elephants not only live on separate continents ... elephant lives on the savanna and grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa, while the African forest elephant lives in the rainforests ...

South Africa is home to the largest southern white rhino population with nearly 13,000 individuals. Another iconic member of the Big Five is the elephant, the largest land animal on Earth. Two ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Africa's human population will more than double over the next 50 years, putting more pressure on Africa's wildlands. Africa: Africa's Elephants Have Been in Dramatic Decline for 50 Years. What Can ...

What would you do if an elephant crashed your pool party? Hopefully, you'd play it cool and stay calm just in case.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Found in Central Africa, most African forest elephants live in the Republic of Congo and Gabon. The largest of the two, African savanna elephants live in 23 African countries. More than half of ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and ...