The Great Elephant Census is the most advanced ... A ratio above 8 percent generally means a population is declining, and continent-wide the carcass ratio turned out to be nearly 12 percent.

Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, given the level of ivory poaching and the degree of human population growth and associated landscape modification across Africa over the past 60 years.

For 200 years, we've been warned of unchecked population growth and how it leads to environmental instability. On the other ...

No two individuals and no two populations are exactly the same. But, we are racing against time—many elephant populations are threatened with extinction, in Southeast Asia especially so.

This has left elephant populations fragmented and squeezed into small areas of preserved forest, such as those in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, an area in the floodplains of the ...