African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) were only recognized as a species separate from the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) in 2021. Now, new evidence and survey techniques have ...

Kenya's Wildlife and Tourism ministry revealed that rising global temperatures now pose a bigger threat to elephants than ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

Scientists say there are thousands more African forest elephants than they previously thought thanks to a new counting technique.

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National ...

A new IUCN report shows African forest elephants are more numerous than previously believed, not due to recovery, but thanks ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...

Night has fallen; an elephant mother and her calf walk through Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which covers more than 4000 square kilometres of rainforest in the northern Republic of the Congo. This ...

JOHANNESBURG - Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by ...