“Armed with this knowledge of dramatically declining elephant populations, we share a collective responsibility to take action and we must all work to ensure the preservation of this iconic species.

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.

With large trees of different varieties providing essential shade, sufficient availability of water and vast open spaces, ...

A provision in the ruling, which will be enacted by 2026, would require exporting countries to have conservation laws to protect declining African elephant populations. A family or herd of African ...

The savanna elephant populations fell by about 70 ... All told, there was a 77% population decrease on average at the various surveyed sites, spanning both species. Elephants vanished at some ...

However, African elephant populations are not declining across the whole of the continent, the researchers found. In fact, in some sites, elephant populations have increased or remained stable.

Wild Africa has called for better protection for the remaining and declining elephant population in Nigeria. The Wild Africa Representative, Festus Iyorah, said this in a statement on Monday in Lagos.

Jharkhand followed with a 68% decrease, as its elephant population fell from 679 in 2017 to 217 in the 2022-23 estimation. Similarly, Odisha saw a reduction from 1,976 elephants in 2017 to 912 in ...