Kenya’s famous matriarch elephant dies
The KWS said Dida had shepherded her herd through many seasons and challenging time A Kenyan elephant, thought to have been Africa’s largest female tusker, has died of old age,…
Counting elephants from space
Elephants in woodland as seen from space. Green rectangles show elephants detected by the algorithm, red rectangles show elephants verified by humans. Credit: Maxar Technologies Satellite images processed with the…
New analyses reveal elephant poaching and global ivory trafficking continue at high unsustainable levels in 2016
A record quantity of ivory may have been in illegal trade in 2016 © TRAFFIC Geneva, Switzerland, 25th October 2017—new analyses find the elephant poaching situation in Africa and levels…