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Common name Binomial name/Trinomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image African bush elephant: Loxodonta africana: 352,000 [1]: EN [1] [1]The population has been reduced dramatically (african elephant populations in 18 countries declined by ~30%) since a mass ivory sell off by southern african countries in the early 2000's to present time.
There are approximately 415,000 African elephants left in the world. The World Wildlife Foundation said that, in 2016, experts estimated their population had fallen by 111,000 over the course of a ...
There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.
Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while most of the African savanna elephant ... only about 13% of the small country is suitable for elephant habitation. ... Whatever is left ...
The Bengal tiger and the Indian elephant are endangered species which are protected by Project Tiger and Project Elephant programmes run by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. [1] [2] [3] Indian Leopards are vulnerable and protected species. [4] The tiger numbers are of animals aged above 1.5 years. [5] [6]
The carrying capacity of remaining suitable habitats was estimated at 8,985,000 elephants at most by 1987. [59] In the 1970s and 1980s, the price of ivory rose, and poaching for ivory increased, particularly in Central African range countries where access to elephant habitats was facilitated by logging and petroleum mining industries. [32]
During drought seasons many elephants damage agricultural land for food. Nearly 80 elephants were killed in northwestern Sri Lanka, 50 in south and east and another 30 in other parts of the country, totaling 160 elephant deaths in 2006 alone. Sri Lanka has thus become the country with the highest elephant mortality rate worldwide. [30]
The country is home to almost a third of the world's savanna elephants, a population that has tripled since 1984, and Botswana is often hailed as a conservation success.