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Elephants play a key role in creating forests which store carbon and protect biodiversity

Elephants play a key role in creating forests which store carbon and protect biodiversity

by ACF | Jan 24, 2023 | Wildlife News

A recent study conducted by researchers of Saint Louis University (USA) and the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (France) has found that elephant populations play a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s atmosphere through their impact on the...
Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks

Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks

by ACF | Mar 8, 2022 | Elephants, Wildlife News

Poaching rare wildlife for teeth, tusks, fur, horns and other body parts is a crime which threatens many species with extinction, but the evidence which could incriminate traffickers is often difficult to access, hard to interpret, or piecemeal. To discover more about...
Tusks found in 500-year-old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade

Tusks found in 500-year-old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade

by ACF | Dec 17, 2020 | Elephants, Ivory

Oxford University study leads cutting-edge scientific and historic analysis of elephant tusks found in shipwrecked cargo. OXFORD, 17 December 2020 – An international team has discovered the origin of the largest cargo of African ivory found from the oldest shipwreck...
UK and Gabonese experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephants

UK and Gabonese experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephants

by ACF | Sep 26, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation Threats

Experts from the University of Stirling, working closely with the Government of Gabon, have led an international study into the impact of climate change on Central Africa’s rainforests and the threat posed to elephant populations in the region. Dr Emma Bush and...
How do giraffes and elephants alter the African Savanna landscape?

How do giraffes and elephants alter the African Savanna landscape?

by ACF | Sep 18, 2020 | Elephants, Wildlife News

As they roam around the African savanna in search for food, giraffes and elephants alter the diversity and richness of its vegetation. By studying the foraging patterns of these megaherbivores across different terrains in a savanna in Kenya, scientists from the...
Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

by ACF | Feb 23, 2020 | Elephants, Ivory, Wildlife News

We are in the midst of an elephant poaching epidemic across the African continent. Fueled by a growing middle class in Asia that is hungry for ivory status symbols, these iconic and intelligent mammals are being slaughtered for their tusks at an alarming rate. While...
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