Michael Viyof Kuwong, wildlife veterinary officer at the WWF Kudu Zombo Programme, said this is equally true for African ...

This remarkable photograph above of the critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) was captured using a camera trap. The image is included in photographer Will Burrard ...

The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather than Central Africa as they had expected. “The isotope analysis determined that ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while ...

A new study analyzed the largest archaeological cargo of African ivory ever found, researchers report. All of the elephant tusks were from African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis.

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

home to elephants and western lowland gorillas, bongo antelopes, African forest buffaloes, gray-cheeked mangabeys and bush pigs, as well as soldiers, rebels, bandits and poachers. Leading our ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...

Forest elephants are indeed unique ... The seasoned conservationist told me about last year´s incursion of Sudanese into the Central African Republic, a heavily armed gang of poachers on horseback, ...

lists African bush elephants and Asian elephants as endangered species, while African forest elephants are classified as critically endangered. Elephant populations have reportedly been declining ...