A new study has analyzed 53 years of population survey data and found large-scale declines in most populations of both species of African elephants. From 1964–2016, forest elephant populations ...

African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a ...

Among key findings, it includes an average decline of 90 percent for the African elephant population, a 70 percent decline for the savannah elephant population and a combined average decline of 77 ...

Researchers unveiled on Monday what they called the most comprehensive assessment of the status of the two African elephant species - the savanna elephant and forest elephant - using data on ...