25 мар. 2021 г. · The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered.

Numbering three to five million in the last century, African elephant populations were severely reduced to its current levels because of hunting. In the 1980s, ...

Elephants are currently listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, which allows for some limited trade in ivory and elephant parts. The Fish and ...

Despite a ban on the international trade in ivory, African elephants are still being poached in large numbers. Tens of thousands of elephants are being killed ...

29 мар. 2024 г. · Serious threats such as poaching, habitat encroachment and climate change continue to imperil this endangered species; African elephants have ...

In 2016, the IUCN reported that Africa's elephant population had seen its worst decline in 25 years, mostly as the result of intensified poaching for ivory. In ...

25 мар. 2021 г. · The African savanna elephant is now listed as Endangered while the African forest elephant is Critically Endangered.

The African bush elephant is listed as Endangered and the African forest elephant as Critically Endangered on the respective IUCN Red Lists. Based ... Taxonomy and evolution · Behavior and ecology · Threats

Find out more about the African forest elephant, a newly classified and critically endangered elephant species that needs our help to survive.