Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

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

By David Brown A continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to ...

Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

Catching elephants -- Powers of trunk and mind -- Muddy exodus -- A counterpoint in Africa -- Breakable chains -- Strange behaviors -- Camps and villages -- Pencil lines on a map -- Flood relief ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...