Central African countries today signed a groundbreaking regional plan to strengthen law enforcement and better combat poaching of elephants and other species at risk from illegal wildlife trade. The ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat have led ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter ... HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of West and Central Africa. RANGE: The ...

PROTECTION STATUS: Listed as a single species (“African elephant,” Loxodonta africana) as “threatened” with a 4(d) rule for ivory trade RANGE: Forest elephants live in the forests of West and Central ...

Multiple species of Rhinos are critically endangered, including Black rhinos, Javan rhinos, Northern white rhinos (a subspecies of white rhinos), and Sumatran rhinos. Poaching and habitat loss are ...

African forest elephants are native to the dense tropical forests of Central and West Africa. However, no wild populations of this species exist in Tunisia. These elephants thrive in vast forest ...