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

Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...

By Ryan Truscott A new study reveals how African elephants plan their elaborate journeys: they strategically choose the least ...

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 ...

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered, can ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...