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

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 ...

The study, "Survey based inference of continental African elephant decline," published ... is complicated and resource intensive. Surveys of savanna elephants are done by spotters in planes ...

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 ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species ... were found to have declined by more than 80% in the last 93 years. Savanna elephant populations declined by ...