Sdudla, an adult male African savanna elephant, will play an important role in mentoring a younger male elephant named Zuli.

Killing of elephants driven by the illegal ivory trade has reached crisis levels in Africa, new information released today says. Across Africa elephants are being driven into decline due to poaching ...

African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

Researchers found elephants help sustain a hidden network of insects, with their loss triggering biodiversity declines across ecosystems.

Poaching of rhinos and elephants has risen so sharply in Africa that the fate of the species are now at risk. Tens of thousands of elephants and at least 588 rhinos have lost their lives in 2012.

The west African ebony tree is dependent on the smaller African forest elephant’s survival. Animalia CC The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A week after the United States quietly lifted a ban on imports of sport-hunted elephants' ivory and lion ...

A continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants once roamed widely, both species exchanging genes throughout their range. However, as ...