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Number of African elephants Men with African elephant tusks in Dar es Salaam, c. 1900. Both species are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, and poaching for the illegal ivory trade is a threat in several range countries as well.
Although elephants are generally peaceful, they will defend themselves and their young when threatened. Asian elephants may weigh 6,000 to 12,000 pounds while African elephants can weigh up to ...
35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why, yet these new findings may just be the answer. 35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why ...
An aerial view shows endangered African elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Dela. The delta was also where the dead elephants were first spotted in 2020. The mass die-off of hundreds of the animals ...
Estimates of over 25,000 to 35,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks in 2012. [37] [38] Despite ivory trade bans in 1989, elephant numbers continue to decline in Africa. [35] Finding and monitoring the origin of illegal ivory found could help efforts to curb and suppress poaching of African elephants. [39]
The African vulture crisis is an ongoing population decline in several ... involving the carcasses of three poisoned African bush elephants. A total 537 vultures ...
African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population ...
A family of African forest elephants in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve wetlands. This species is considered to be critically endangered. African bush elephants were listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2021, [145] and African forest elephants were listed as Critically Endangered in the same ...