by Adam Cruise | Dec 20, 2019 | News
By JONATHAN HAHN – Sierra Art Wolfe’s “Wild Elephants” is a triumph of fine art and conservation A century ago, as many as 12 million elephants roamed the continent of Africa. Today, that number has plummeted to an estimated 400,000. A combination of illegal...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 13, 2019 | News
By Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian In a way, our modern understanding of extinction starts with the elephant. It was while studying fossilized teeth of two different elephantancestors, the mammoth and the mastodon, that scientists first becameaware of the fact that...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 20, 2019 | News
By ARISTOS GEORGIOU – NewsWeek he African elephant will disappear within two decades if urgent action is not taken to save one of the world’s most iconic animal species, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned in a new campaign fundraiser. The...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 26, 2019 | News
By Carrie Bebermeyer, Saint Louis University – Phys.org One of the last remaining megaherbivores, forest elephants shape their environment by serving as seed dispersers and forest bulldozers as they eat over a hundred species of fruit, trample bushes, knock over...
