For zoologists it has, if you excuse the pun, long been the elephant in the room. While the text books insist there are just two species of elephant in the world – the long-eared African and the ...

DNA evidence suggesting that there are three different species of elephant in Africa could lead to a heated debate among zoologists. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) say ...

African elephants are at an increasing risk of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss, conservationists have warned. African forest elephants, which are native to West Africa and the Congo basin, ...

Africa's forest elephants are inching towards extinction, with their population dwindling 86 per cent in the last three decades, conservationists said on Thursday. Savanna elephants on the continent ...

Only about 1,000 Bornean elephants remain, threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and human conflict. Bornean elephants, the smallest living elephants, are now classified as Endangered by the IUCN ...

A new study published by a team of international researchers found that a now-extinct species of dwarf elephant halved in height and shrank by nearly 85 per cent body mass on the island of Sicily. The ...

Poaching is a major concern in parts of Africa - especially of forest elephants Genetic researchers may have resolved a long-standing dispute by proving there are two species of African elephant.

African elephants are at increasing risk of extinction in the face of poaching for ivory and the loss of their habitat, the latest conservation assessment warns. Forest elephants are now listed as ...

For the first time ever, the conservation status of Africa's two species of elephant have been assessed separately, and the results have shown that both are endangered. The International Union for ...

Save The Asian Elephants (STAE), supported by numerous friends of all ethnicities, religions, backgrounds and politics, and the public presented the world’s largest-ever petition for an animal species ...

A painted elephant sculpture going on display in a London park next week will highlight the threats to the species’ survival with its poignant message “Will Only Words Remain?” The 1.5metre-high, ...