... of the logging trade which employed virtually all Thai elephants in 1989.
The ban made 2,000 ... countries are starting to train African elephants for elephant back safaris.
Professor Duffy added: " ...
... seems to be unaware of the giant mammals' plight. The elephant death rate from poaching throughout Africa ... numbered more than 1 million. Today the total African elephant population is less than 470,000 ...
... compared his Asian elephant data with Delf Schwerda and Martin Fischer's data from African elephants: the two species were indistinguishable. Most surprisingly, when Heather Paxton investigated the ...
... the morale of the park rangers who work in dangerous conditions with little equipment.
The African elephant is listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and has ...
... and a former doctoral student at the University of Washington Center for Conservation Biology.
African elephants rely heavily on matriarchs to lead groups and keep families together. Before the ...
... 1-million years ago, which is one quarter the genetic distance that separates Indian and African elephants and woolly mammoths," Miller said. The research indicates that the diversity of the two ...
The UN has given China the green light to bid in a one-off sale of a 108 tonnes stockpile of African elephant ivory.
... members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African elephant – are often thousands or millions of times bigger than the typical species. Now for the first ...
China has been approved as a buyer of African Elephant ivory in a one-off sale from four southern African countries, probably later this year. The decision was taken to ...
... , but the largest members of a taxonomic group - such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African elephant - are often thousands or millions of times bigger than the typical species...
... endangered this year after successful reintroductions started in Mongolia in the early 1990s.
The African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) moved from vulnerable to near threatened, although its status ...
The African elephant, Cuban crocodile, and Asian fishing cat are among species elevated to more critical categories on the updated global Red List of Threatened Species.
... long-necked giants of the dinosaur world weighed as much as 10 African elephants. Researchers now think they know why the tubby vegetarian beasts got so big: They swallowed high- ...
... those sequences that truly belong to the mammoth from possible contaminants.
"Only after the genome of the African elephant has been completed will we be able to make a final assessment about how ...
