Africa's 2 elephant species are endangered - here's how we can save them
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African savanna elephants have declined by 60% since 1990. Forest elephants, which the IUCN is treating as a separate species…
African savanna elephants have declined by 60% since 1990. Forest elephants, which the IUCN is treating as a separate species…
Forest elephants in Gabon. zahorec/Shutterstock Emma Bush, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE); Katharine…
Elephant poachers are using logging roads to infiltrate some of the last remaining pristine forests in Central Africa…
A new study shows an unlikely link between elephants and climate change, and how they could be a surprising ally.
More than a month into 2018, nature has already been in the news: Hong Kong voted to ban the sale…
Wildlife trafficking ruins lives and threatens security and economies around the world.The illicit trade in wildlife products…
Although we’re wiping them out with little consideration of it, big herbivores matter. Hippo poop helps Africa’s largest lake…
Children in every corner of the globe can identify an elephant in a wildlife lineup. They are as recognizable as any basic…
Children in every corner of the globe can identify an elephant in a wildlife lineup. They are as recognizable as any basic…
Male elephants wander. As they mature and prepare to breed, they roam great distances in search of estrous females. These…
Our article “Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa…
The world’s wild places have been badly carved up by decades of roadbuilding, dam construction, energy exploitation, and other…
Leveraging the most comprehensive dataset ever compiled for the gorillas and chimpanzees that live in western Central Africa…
Voilà de drôles de bêtes que les pangolins. Leur langue peut être plus longue que leur corps, ils ressemblent à une pomme de…
The issue of whether ivory trading should be legalised to fund elephant conservation, or banned altogether, is long standing…
Camera traps have proven to be a powerful tool in conservationists’ arsenal for monitoring forests and wildlife. But the…
In a guest post for Science Blog, Oxford DPhil student Anabelle Cardoso, from the Environmental Change Institute in the School…
The ivory trade in Central Africa appears to be diminishing, according to a new report from TRAFFIC, a U.K.-based watchdog NGO.
Pangolins are peculiar creatures. Their tongue can be longer than their body, they look like a pinecone with legs, and they are…
Central Africa’s natural treasures are a blessing. They are also a curse. The vast Congo Basin — spanning six Central African…
Central Africa’s natural treasures are a blessing. They are also a curse. The vast Congo Basin — spanning six Central African…
I bracconieri, provenienti principalmente dal Camerun, stanno 'svuotando' il Parco Nazionale di Minkebe, un santuario per gli…
The bottom line is that if we’re smart and plan carefully, we can still increase food production and human equity across much…
How do you map a nearly inaccessible 9,000-square-kilometer African wetland that is home to hippos, forest elephants, crocodiles…
As the IUCN prepares to debate an end to the ivory trade, two new reports show just how poorly Africa’s elephant species are…
Strategically placed honeybee hives can deter African elephants from raiding crops, but the hives must be actively managed by…
A forest elephant wades in the Djidji River in Gabon’s Ivindo National Park. Photo by Malcolm Starkey.Moviegoers are headed for…
Plants and…
Il commercio illegale di animali selvatici, che siano vivi o fatti a pezzi, ha un volume d’affari di 19 miliardi di dollari l’ann…
By the end of the century, the world’s remaining tropical forests will be left in a fragmented, simplified, and degraded state.
Environment Photo credit: Beautiful scenes like this may soon be a thing of the past. The Whiteview/Shutterstoc…
The illicit trade in wildlife products is predicated on the deaths of defenseless iconic animal species, many of which face…
Imagine trying to protect all the elephants across sub-Saharan Africa. With poaching for ivory at its all-time worst, this is a…
An entire species of elephant is hidden in plain sight, researchers say, and it's on the edge of extinction.We all know there…
Conservation organizations are committed to ensuring we measure what we manage. Oddly, the deck is often stacked against us.
Photograph courtesy Michael Nichols/National Geographic CreativeThere’s simply no way other way to begin this story: The future…
It just gets worse and worse. Last year a shocking study revealed that 62 percent of the world’s forest elephants (Loxodonta…
New data from the field in Central Africa shows that […]
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Elephant dung density and range reduction across the Central African forests.1) Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at…
Guards at the Okapi Faunal Reserve display ivory elephant tusks confiscated from poachers. Courtesy of the Okapi Conservation…
For the month of March, a variety of papers caught the media’s attention, from distracting cell phone conversations, to the…
Human activities and consumption pose constant threats to the environment and to wildlife but the scale of these threats can be…
An international team of researchers set out on the daunting task of surveying the Central African elephant population. Their…
W poniedziałek światło dzienne ujrzały dwa przerażające raporty, które pokazują jak szybko nasz gatunek unicestwia życie na tej…
More than 60 percent of Africa's forest elephants have been killed in the past decade due to the ivory trade, reports a new…
A bull male forest elephant in Gabon. A new study published in the PLOS ONE shows that African forest elephants are being…