No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba ...

As the World Wildlife Fund points out, the African forest elephant was declared Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2021.

The group said it’s the first time the African elephants were assessed as two separate species, following the emergence of new genetic evidence gathered over the past decade. Forest elephants ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins.

Though it’s likely that Ousmane is the sole African forest elephant in Senegal, Henschel confirmed that the news isn’t all bad. “Panthera and our local partner, the park authority DPN, have ...