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

Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, given the level of ivory poaching and the degree of human population growth and associated landscape modification across Africa over the past 60 years.

Even Botswana, a safe haven for wildlife for so long can no longer escape the bloody tide and more and more reports of poaching are emerging. We cannot fully comprehend the extent of the impact the ...

landscape planning for human-elephant coexistence, and intensified efforts to combat ivory poaching. Africa's human population will more than double over the next 50 years, putting more pressure ...

A comprehensive study which analyzed data of over 50 years has revealed a dramatic decline in Africa’s elephant populations.

The draft strategy is skewed in favour of anthropocentric benefits – economic, spiritual and cultural – and cannot function in practical terms.

Mineral extraction also occurs nearby. Elephant populations in West Africa have declined throughout the 20th and 21st centuries as a result of ivory poaching, habitat loss, and human-wildlife conflict ...

13,000: The estimated elephant population in Tanzania’s Selous reserve in 2013, according to Traffic. 70,000: The estimated elephant population in Tanzania’s Selous reserve in 2007 ...

With poaching controlled ... a young Mozambican ecologist who serves as elephant manager for the park. Cradled in the southern end of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Gorongosa’s 1,500 square ...