More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

According to AFP, via Phys.org, the new status report showed that 135,690 African forest elephants were alive in 2024. In ...

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

Big animals have a big impact on the environment. Whales, elephants, bison: They’re the movers and shakers of their ecosystems. But what happens when they die? An international team of researchers, ...

In India, collision with trains is a leading anthropogenic cause of elephant mortality. Here's how such incidents can be ...

An exciting development in conservation comes in the form of an automated system that captures high-resolution satellite images in order to count animals in complex landscapes. The imagery taken by ...

BENGALURU: A spate of deadly accidents involving trains and elephants has sharpened the focus on the growing incursions of ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature now lists the African forest elephant as critically endangered and the African savanna elephant as endangered. Both species have experienced sharp ...

This article was originally published on Undark. In 2018, news spread around Saroj Duru’s village that four elephants had gathered at a nearby lake. Such creatures didn’t typically visit her region in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan reporter Alvin Kaunda had an important message for viewers about human impacts on the environment. A nearby baby elephant had other concerns. Kaunda, flanked by several ...

No people were injured in the accident, despite a partial derailment. As elephant habitat shrinks, such deadly encounters are ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego’s first zoo elephants arrived by train in 1923, from San Francisco. Queenie and Empress walked off a special railroad car and refused to budge. Harry Wegeforth, the ...