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Officials pledge zoo review after Sumatran elephant is killed in Bali flood

Luh De Suriyani 19 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2024
A team from Action for Sustainable Development Investigating the causes of deforestation alerts in Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary in southern Cameroon. Image courtesy of Genevieve Ndjiki.

Monitoring group cracks down on deforestation in Cameroon gorilla sanctuary

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Nov 2024

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Nov 2024

Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2024
Elephants move across the African savannah. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

‘Old’ animals offer wisdom and stability, need protection: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2024
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

African elephants declining — but some areas show promise

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Nov 2024

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2024
Loxodonta africana cyclotis. Forest elephant bull Gamba, Gabon. Image by WWF / Hervé MORAND with courtesy.

WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of a planet in peril

Anne Nzouankeu, David Akana 10 Oct 2024
Cuatir Conservation Area’s neighbours come to inspect the new arrivals. Image by Jim Tan for Mongabay.

26 elephants from Namibia moved to Angola’s only private conservation area

Jim Tan 7 Oct 2024
Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024

In Sri Lanka, election day is time for firecrackers — to ward off elephants

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Sep 2024
A tusker with a herd of elephants in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka completes first elephant census since 2011 amid uncertainty

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2024
Saiga antelope herd. Image by Yakov Fedorov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

First-ever global atlas shines light on large mammal migrations

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2024
The bone of an elephant that died from electric shock in Karang Ampar.

As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences

Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Jul 2024

Bangladesh wildlife sanctuary continues to lose primary forest

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2024

‘Explorer elephants’ in transfrontier conservation area offer solution to tree damage

Ryan Truscott 28 Jun 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Fear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal’s tiger central  

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jun 2024
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Exploring the science of Asian elephants: Interview with Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 May 2024

Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers biodiversity

Spoorthy Raman 18 Apr 2024
Savannah elephants at Majete NP, Malawi. Image by Peter Steward via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Malawi police arrest elephant poachers in Kasungu National Park

Charles Mpaka 18 Apr 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor / Robin Naidoo / Lisa Steel / Michael Knight / Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024

Smallholders and loggers push deeper into Sumatra’s largest park

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2023

Iconic tusker’s plight shows challenges in managing Sri Lanka’s wild elephants

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023
An elephant with her mahout at the project, which employs 58 people, 48 of them from local communities.

A sanctuary for elephants and forests in Cambodia

John Cannon 31 Oct 2023
A herd of wild elephants in Thailand.

How wild elephants solve puzzles may help humans resolve wildlife conflicts

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2023
A herd of Asiatic elephants in Assam.

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023

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