Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations ...

View post: U.S. Issues Most Serious 'Do Not Travel' Warning An African forest elephant — nicknamed the “ghost elephant” due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...