A study reported in the journal Current Biology on April 1 has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million square kilometers of Africa--an area bigger than ...

A study has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million square kilometers of Africa -- an area bigger than the whole of Russia -- still has suitable habitat ...

The overall declining trend of both African elephant species calls for increased support by donors, governments of the elephant range states, and the international community to ensure that elephant ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

April 1 (UPI) --African elephants have habitat to spare, but new research suggests their range has been constrained by 2,000 years of human pressure. Despite human development and population growth ...

Poachers killing Africa’s elephants for ivory have brought them to the brink of extinction, with the continent’s two species today officially classified as endangered for the first time. “It’s an ...

Zoo Atlanta's newest addition is Titan the African elephant. Sixteen-year-old Titan came to Atlanta from a Kansas zoo on the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo now has ...

ATLANTA, GA — Zoo Atlanta welcomes a new eight thousand pound addition to its African Savannah elephant complex. Titan, a 16-year-old male African elephant, arrived in Atlanta today from Sedgwick ...

How do elephants say hello? As it happens, researchers are learning more about how the animals greet each other, and how relationships among the social species could impact that communication. African ...

A proposed ban on the export of wild African elephants to zoos and circuses in countries such as the U.S. and China has been upheld by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...