International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently announced a collaboration with the World Wide Fund (“WWF”) for Nature - Germany to focus on advancing the conservation of critically endangered ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) — The populations of Africa’s elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat have led to a ...

Elephant trails may lead the way to better conservation approaches. “Think of elephants as engineers of the forests,” said Melissa J. Remis, professor and head of anthropology at Purdue University, ...

Groundbreaking research published in Science Advances shows African ebony trees rely on elephants for survival—and the future of guitar fingerboards may depend on elephant conservation The research ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

In the heart of the Congo Basin, Dzanga-Sangha boasts breathtaking wildlife alongside growing solar capacity. With 98% of electricity consumption powered by the sun, conservation efforts and local ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...