Titan, who the zoo says weighs more than 8,000 pounds, was born in Eswatini, an African nation near Mozambique. He and ...

The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park.

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

There are two extant species of elephants: the African savanna elephant and the Asian elephant. The African elephant is the largest land mammal on Earth; the Asian elephant is slightly smaller.

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

Central African states on Saturday said they would mobilize up to 1,000 soldiers and law-enforcement officials to immediately start joint military operations to protect the region’s last remaining ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories ... irreplaceable engineers of the forest and savanna from extinction.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Many African elephant populations are already severely depleted due to other threats, such as habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, regional conflict and instability, climate change, and a dramatic ...

Based on genetic research and the latest status assessment of African elephants, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has formally split the species into forest and savanna ...