THE STATUS OF AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS AND UPDATES ...

African Elephant Facts | Southern Africa Wildlife Guide

Although elephants currently number between 700,000 and 1 million, their range and numbers are rapidly dwindling. Over the past 20 years, illegal poaching, ...

50 years of survey data confirm African elephant decline

A study found large-scale declines of African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Over 53 years of ...

Elephant in the Room: CITES and African Elephants

STORY HIGHLIGHTS · Theory vs practice. The theory behind legal trade is sound, with elephants dying of natural causes, their ivory being ...

African Savannah elephant - ZSL

The main threats to the remaining elephant populations in this region are illegal poaching for ivory alongside habitat loss and fragmentation (caused by ongoing ...

How Many Elephants Are Left In The World? - Discover Magazine

Those numbers have been plummeting though, and as of 2016, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) African ...

(PDF) African Elephant Status Report 2016: an update from the ...

PDF | On Sep 25, 2016, Chris R Thouless and others published African Elephant Status Report 2016: an update from the African Elephant ...

Gardeners of the Congo: how African elephants fight climate change

African forest elephants may be the smallest of the three species. Still, recent research shows they may provide an enormous service in aiding ...

How African Elephants Fight Climate Change – IMF F&D

Consider the plight of African forest elephants. Some 1.1 million once roamed the central African rainforests, but deforestation and poaching have diminished ...

New decisions by global conservation group bolster efforts to save ...

Secondly, in March, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updated its Red List, and moved African elephants into more threatened ...

Loss of forest elephant may make Earth 'less inhabitable for humans'

“With a larger population, the conservation status of the 'African elephant' can be listed as 'Vulnerable,'” Poulsen says, “which allows some [ ...

African Elephants — Destination: Wildlife™

Only 36 individual's remain in Ethiopia's ironically named Babile Elephant Reserve. We have lost over 1/3 of our total African elephant population in the last ...

Elephants For Africa: Home

Elephant conservation charity committed to protecting the endangered African elephant in Botswana through research and education.

Alarming population decline in African elephants, research says

The savanna elephant populations fell by about 70 per cent on average at the surveyed sites and the forest elephant populations dropped by about ...

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) - Wildlife ACT

Poaching for ivory and meat has traditionally been the major cause of the decline in elephant populations. Illegal hunting remains a significant factor in ...

Africa's elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss - WTHR

The African forest elephant is critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is endangered. The two species had previously been ...

Forest elephant - endangered gardeners - Africa Geographic

The magnificent, intelligent, and highly endangered forest elephant made headlines in March this year when the International Union for ...

The African Elephant Fund: Home 1

Quotes about Elephant Conservation · Savannah elephant populations declined by 30 percent (equal to 144,000 elephants) between 2007 and 2014. · 352,271 elephants ...

The future survival of African elephants: Implications for conservation

In 2007 the elephant population in Africa was estimated at between 470000 and 690000. However, this population is rapidly decreasing.

Decline in African Elephant Populations | Open Case Studies

The current decrease in elephant populations is primarily due to illegal poaching, demand for Ivory products, and factors associated with human population ...

Survey-based inference of continental African elephant decline | PNAS

Both species have experienced substantial declines at the majority of survey sites. Forest elephant sites have declined on average by 90%, ...