International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

DNA methods help uncover further African Forest Elephants – but species remains critically endangered

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...
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There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered

African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) were only recognized as a species separate from the African savannah elephant ...
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Assistance to Uganda in Developing a Strategic Anti-Poaching Outpost for Elephants

On Thursday, April 12, Handover Ceremony of a Strategic Anti-Poaching Outpost for Elephants was held in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. This project was funded by the Government of Japan ...
Mongabay

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...
Mongabay

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

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 ...
The Conversation

Nigeria risks losing all its forest elephants – what we found when we went looking for them

Queen Omoregie received funding from the 2015 S. L. Edu Memorial Research grant and the Graduate Fellow grant, School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos to carry out this research. Bola Oboh ...