Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 27 November 2025 – DNA-based inventory methods have enabled a new assessment of African Forest Elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) populations with improved accuracy. This is the first time the entire species has been assessed since they were recognized as a full species in 2021, separate from their cousins, African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana). Released at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in...

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.

January 19, 2016—A newly published book focused on promoting research and conservation methods and strategies for the African forest elephant arrives at a crucial time for this species, which is being decimated by poaching, habitat loss, and other threats, according to authors from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)  and other organizations.