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The population of Asian elephants in the wild continues to decline, ... Today there are only around 50,000 left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund. African elephants are targeted ...
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.
Over this range of habitat types elephants occur from sea level to over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). In the eastern Himalaya in northeast India, they regularly move up above 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in summer at a few sites. [41] India has more than 50% of the wild Asian elephant population. Pictured are herds at Jim Corbett National Park
In 2020, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to the population declining by half over "the last three generations". [149] Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [150] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [149] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [150]
Asian elephants have an estimated population of about 50,000. Over 60% of the population is found in India . Only four other countries in Asia have more than 2,000 wild elephants, including ...
Elephants are one of the iconic animals that people travel thousands of miles to see. But have you ever wondered if elephants are endangered? Well, unfortunately, these huge animals — the ...
The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.
Just beginning in the spring, the first 12 animals in the herd have been sent to a conservation center just south of the Florida-Georgia line.