The population of the African forest elephant plummeted 86 percent over 30 years, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which has placed it on its red list of threatened ...

The African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is now listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba ...

An African forest elephant — nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years earlier this June. Remote ...

An individual African forest elephant can enhance a forest's net carbon capture capacity by nearly 250 acres, which is equivalent to offsetting a year’s worth of emissions from 2,047 cars. Per ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

His song, composed in 1983, speaks of the elephants’ historical connection to the forest. However, the last elephant was killed in 1999, a victim of rampant poaching in the post-genocide years.

An estimated 189 African forest elephants are now living in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, according to the findings of a recent survey. The last reliable population estimate was conducted nearly ...

Though it’s likely that Ousmane is the sole African forest elephant in Senegal, Henschel confirmed that the news isn’t all bad. “Panthera and our local partner, the park authority DPN, have ...