Elephants have long been thought of as either African or Asian. But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains ...

The elephants are threatened by radical population declines connected with poaching and human-caused habitat loss. A 2016 report estimated the combined species numbers for African elephants at ...

As previously stated, the ivory trade, habitat loss, poaching and elephant-human conflict pose threats to elephant populations. Since 1979, the habitat of African elephants has been reduced by ...