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Forest elephants are our allies in the fight against climate change, finds research

Forest elephants are our allies in the fight against climate change, finds research

by ACF | Jul 20, 2019 | Conservation Solutions, Elephants, Forest, Habitat News

Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store. The bad news is that African forest elephants –...
Size Matters: Forest Elephants Important For Ecosystems And Humans In West Central Africa

Size Matters: Forest Elephants Important For Ecosystems And Humans In West Central Africa

by ACF | Oct 8, 2018 | Elephants, Forest, Wildlife News

A new review paper finds that the loss of Africa’s forest elephants has broad impacts on their ecosystems, including hitting several tall tree species, which play a key role in sequestering carbon dioxide. Forest elephants disperse large seeds, keep the forest canopy...
Beehive fences and elephants: Tanzanian case study offers fresh insights

Beehive fences and elephants: Tanzanian case study offers fresh insights

by ACF | Aug 22, 2018 | Elephants, Wildlife News

Beehive fences can help improve human-elephant coexistence. By Katarzyna Nowak, University of the Free State When people cultivate food crops on or near wild lands it can be assumed that wild animals will eat them – what’s known as crop-raiding. Farms in the vicinity...
Comprehensive genetic study finds justification to recognise forest and savanna elephants as separate species

Comprehensive genetic study finds justification to recognise forest and savanna elephants as separate species

by ACF | Mar 4, 2018 | Elephants, Wildlife News

A genetic study of living and extinct elephant species generated proof forest elephants and the savanna elephants are indeed two separate species – an issue that has been a scientific debate for many years. The scientists behind the study hope that these findings help...
How African elephants’ amazing sense of smell could save lives

How African elephants’ amazing sense of smell could save lives

by ACF | Oct 22, 2017 | Elephants, Wildlife News

For 27 years Angola was gripped by civil war. Half a million human lives were lost and wildlife, too, was decimated to sustain troops. Rhino and elephants became valuable targets – rhino horn and ivory served as currency for arms among rebel forces. During the...
Can Japanese Say No to Ivory Products?

Can Japanese Say No to Ivory Products?

by ACF | Dec 13, 2016 | Conservation Threats, Elephants, Ivory, Wildlife News

I’m a Japanese woman married to a British diplomat.  We keep moving places every 3 to 4 years and currently live in Malawi after staying four years in Kenya.  Since our Kenya days, we’ve visited a number of national parks and game reserves in Kenya, Zambia and South...
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