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A groundbreaking study on African elephant communication has revealed that elephants, like humans, use ‘names’ to address each other.
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Powerful, award-winning nature films like ‘The Elephant Queen’, made by filmmakers Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone and Etienne Oliff, have the potential to reshape attitudes and garner support for elephants in rural communities, according to a new study.
Kenya is endowed with an extraordinary wealth of mammals, birds and other biodiversity, a unique heritage for the people of Kenya.
Despite increased awareness, China continues to be the world’s major concern in the consumption of illegal ivory. Media attention and support from international NGOs have drawn attention to the poaching crisis currently facing elephants in Africa; there h
From 2013 to 2016, Laos’s retail ivory market has expanded more rapidly than in any other country surveyed recently.
Foraging behavior of elephants with respect to debarking of woody species was?investigated in Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya.
Increasing habitat fragmentation and human population growth in Africa has resulted in an escalation in human–elephant conflict between small-scale farmers and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta Africana).
The Elephant Scholarship Programme is a primary branch of the Save The Elephants/Elephant Watch Safaris education program founded by Oria Douglas-Hamilton.
Iain Douglas-Hamilton remembers a man who fought long and hard to advance the conservation cause in Africa – and around the world. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands died of cancer on 1 December 2004 at the age of 93.
Dominance hierarchies are expected to form in response to socioecological pressures and competitive regimes.
Monitoring anthropogenic impacts on wildlife can be challenging, particularly when human activities affecting wildlife are cryptic.
Carbon-14 measurements on 231 elephant ivory specimens from 14 large ivory seizures (?0.5 ton) made between 2002 and 2014 show that most ivory (ca. 90%) was derived from animals that had died less than 3 y before ivory was confiscated.
