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

the efforts of governments and conservation organizations to count elephants have amassed a remarkable dataset, held by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and its African ...

In a bold display of power, a lone elephant charges forward with unwavering force, sending three startled lions scattering in ...

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

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 ...

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land ...

the efforts of governments and conservation organisations to count elephants have amassed a remarkable dataset, held by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and its African ...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton spent a lifetime communing with African elephants, going on to champion ... the hubristic belief that people are above nature has allowed humans to bring immeasurable change ...

Malawi’s parks department did not reply to emailed questions on the problems with the elephants in Kasungu. The case reflects the difficulties many African countries are faced with when ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...