JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's biggest animals were poached in near record numbers in 2012, with surging demand for horn and ivory from Asia driving the slaughter of rhinos and elephants. By ...
Elephants approaching a waterhole in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Rudi van Aarde Africa is home to about 410,000 savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana), most of them living in southern Africa.
That is changing now, as the largest genomic study of African elephants to date has been published in the journal Nature Communications, led by Slovak evolutionary biologist PATRÍCIA CHRZANOVÁ ...
The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants ...
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