African forest elephants are smaller and inhabit rainforests ... The main threat that elephants face is poaching. Up to 30,000 elephants are killed every year for their tusks.

Kalron had been working to rescue several thousand forest elephants in the ... the armed gangs in the anti-poaching struggle ignores the larger problems. The South African writer Adam Welz has ...

Data from the report shows increased poaching across the entire range of the African elephant, but the highest rates are in Central Africa. “The rise in levels of illegal killing and the dynamics ...

The tea had been replaced with elephant tusks ... sales of African ivory. The ban went into effect in 1990, and for several years it seemed to be working. Poaching eased, and in some parts ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis ... to devote major resources to curbing ivory poaching ...

The conservation group Elephants Without Borders believes the rise in poaching in Botswana is due to the country's recent changes to its anti-poaching unit Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct ... declined by more than 50% over the last 75 years. Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory ...

Coutu said that some West African forest elephants still live outside the tropical rainforest ... The team hopes their research and techniques can be applied going forward to help prevent poaching.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, the forest brigand, K. Veerappan, who held sway over the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, was notorious for poaching elephants for ivory. While that is now a ...

Radhakrishnan Lauds Its Secular Service To Society You may know that elephants, although both adorable and powerful, are victims of poaching ... while African forest elephants are classified ...