Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

World Elephant Day, observed annually on August 12, highlights the urgent need to protect these keystone species. Initiated ...

The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is now ...

The African savanna elephant and the Asian elephant are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The forest elephant is critically endangered.

There are reckoned to be about 2,000 African and Indian elephants in zoos worldwide and another 15,000 Indian elephants kept privately - mostly in logging companies and temples.

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

Foreign Experts to Be Brought In Gandhi said elephants were often starved and beaten whilebeing trained and 50 percent of them died in the process.

Charley, an aging African elephant, had outlived other elephants at a South Africa zoo. Moving him to his retirement at a private reserve took some delicate work.

Osh, the Oakland Zoo's last African elephant was recently moved from California to an Tennessee's Elephant Sanctuary. How the 15,000-pound animal made the 2,250-mile journey.