Newsday Zimbabwe AFRICA’S forest elephants remain critically endangered, but new data reveal a glimmer of hope where ...

Suddenly, one of them was right behind me. As I jumped out of bed and across to the door, I heard rips and the sound of ...

In addition to exposing weaknesses in our land management policy and practices in terms of irrigation and road infrastructure ...

C'sar was also the oldest African bull elephant in the United States. The NC Zoo said he died peacefully on Friday. He was 51 ...

The longer I spend in Madagascar, the harder I find it to keep my bearings, stick to the matter-of-factness of global ...

“Elephants are the gardeners of the forest,” Blake wrote, explaining that when elephants eat the fruit from high carbon ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. NYUNGWE NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda — It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from ...

The secretive African forest elephant is coming out of the shadows. The latest IUCN assessment of the species, which lives in dense rainforest, concludes there are over 135,000 of them, 16 per cent ...

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 elephants based on more tentative “guesses”. Updated methods provide a clearer ...

A new DNA-based counting method has revealed a larger population of endangered African forest elephants than previously estimated. Despite this positive finding, conservationists emphasize the need ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a ...