News Releases

Entries for ' rain forests'

May 12, 2016

Poaching of old forest elephant matriarchs threatens rainforests

May 12, 2016—Scientists working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Stirling, and the Amboseli Trust for Elephants say that the high levels of poaching forest elephants will result in a loss of the oldest, wisest matriarchs, who are living libraries of their vast rainforest domain. Without these mothers, forest elephant social lives and their understanding of their ecosystem will be lost. This exacerbates the ongoing loss of ecosystem function already underway by the loss of these most effective seed dispersers and forest gardeners.

Full Article

Stand for Wildlife

Join more than one million wildlife lovers working to save the Earth's most treasured and threatened species.