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A forest elephant near Ngounié, Gabon. Image by marcusgmeiner via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Poaching down but threats remain for forest elephants, recent population assessment finds

Spoorthy Raman 5 Jan 2026
The presence of Sumatran elephants is intended to help transport wood left over from the flood.

Tsunami veteran rescue elephants mobilized for Indonesia cyclone disaster relief

Junaidi Hanafiah 19 Dec 2025
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Researchers find evidence of elephant poaching in remote Bangladesh forest

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2025
A forest elephant in Gabon.

Ebony’s uncertain future without elephants

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka tusker death sparks euthanasia debate & calls for conservation solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2025
A forest elephant, not from Senegal.

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025
Banner image of iconic tusker Unicorn in Minneriya, Sri Lanka, courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda.

Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers ‘falling like dominoes,’ conservationists warn

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025
Elephant society is dynamic and very complex. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

Male African elephants develop distinct personality traits as they age, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 25 Feb 2025
A wild Asian elephant in Nepal's plains. Image courtesy of Ashok Ram

As elephant conflict shifts, Nepal’s border village offers clues for coexistence

Deepak Adhikari 18 Feb 2025

How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants

Deepak Adhikari 30 Jan 2025

Elephants, gorillas and chimps hold out in Cameroon’s largest protected landscape

Leocadia Bongben 16 Jan 2025
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
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

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

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
A path is cut deep into the core zone of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province following the government's approval of a new mining license in the protected forest. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia approves, then suspends, marble mine in Keo Seima REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 31 Aug 2023

One elephant a day: Sri Lanka wildlife conflict deepens as death toll rises

Hassaan Shazuli 5 May 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
Conservation Response Unit team in Cot Girek pose while also trying to control Marni the elephant.

Life in the awe-and-terror-inspiring vicinity of the Sumatran elephant

Philip Jacobson 20 Oct 2022

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022
Group of elephants facing the camera, the nearest with trunk raised and ears fanned. Image by Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile

Farayi Machamire 1 Jun 2022
Forest elephants in the Congo Basin.

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2022
Bonga enjoying the feeling of the cooler part of our walk through the forest one afternoon in 2018. Copyright Ana Verahrami/Elephant Listening Project.

To conserve the vibrant diversity of Central Africa’s forests, include Indigenous people (commentary)

Anahita Verahrami 16 May 2022
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Thai tourism elephants are ‘far better off’ in forests: Q&A with photographer Adam Oswell

Carolyn Cowan 15 Mar 2022

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

Ini Ekott 4 Mar 2022

DNA assessment confirms Gabon as last stronghold of forest elephants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Nov 2021

Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

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