By Rajat Ghai, Down to Earth Illegal wildlife trade (IWT), which poses a...
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Forest elephants
Endangered elephants ‘eavesdrop’ on poachers in Republic of the Congo
By Ryan Truscott, RFI Critically endangered forest elephants use their acute...
Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest
By Amindeh Blaise Atabong - MongaBay Bulldozers have opened around 40...
This Teenager Invented a Low-Cost Tool to Spot Elephant Poachers in Real Time
By Margaret Osborne - Smithsonian Magazine Seventeen-year-old Anika Puri...
A New Way to Count African Forest Elephants: DNA From Dung
by Alice Laguardia and Gaspard Abitsi - The Revelator An important new survey...
As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk
By Sharon Guynup - MongaBay Many plants rely on animals to reproduce,...
Nationwide abundance and distribution of African forest elephants across Gabon using non-invasive SNP genotyping
By A. Laguardia, S. Bourgeois, S. Strindberg, K.S. Gobush, G. Abitsi, H.G....
Tracing DNA of related elephants reveals illegal ivory trafficking networks
By Ashley Strickland, CNN African elephants have drastically dwindled as...
African ministers sound alarm over threats to forest elephants
By Naftali Mwaura, Xinhua NAIROBI: The survival of African forest elephants is...