Elephant
The elephants are the large mammals forming the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant(Elephas maximus). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons,More info:wiki
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#10 Status Check for African Elephants,More info:nrdc
Are African elephants endangered? Not everywhere—and that’s a problem.
The idea of endangered species appears straightforward: A species is either at grave risk of extinction, or it is not. Endangerment, however, is often a determination that involves a tricky mixture of science and politics.
For starters, while you’ve likely heard people refer to “the endangered species list,” there isn’t just one list. What’s more, the categories across the lists may be identical, but they don’t necessarily comprise the same wildlife species.
African elephants are a good example. According to the Red List maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Loxodonta africana is not endangered. Rather, the animal is “vulnerable”―one category better off.
#9 Elephant Crisis Fund,More info:leonardodicaprio
#8 29 Adorable Photos Of Baby Elephants To Brighten Up Your Day,More info:500px
We all know and love elephants but baby elephants are even better. Thanks to these photography experts for sharing these amazing elephant photos with us.
To celebrate the presence of these majestic, gentle creatures in the world, take a look at these 29 baby elephants captured on camera by 500px photographers.Scroll down below, and share this with anyone who these adorable animals would perk there day.
#7 Elephant,More info:nickelodeon-movies.wikia
#6 Scientists Expose East African Elephant Poaching Patterns,More info:labroots
Elephant poaching is an ongoing problem throughout Africa as poachers develop sneakier tactics for collecting their trophies. On the other hand, efforts to deter elephant poaching or at least catch the villains in the act remain as strong as ever.
Animal conservationists need to stay one step ahead of the bad guys for their deterrents to work, but doing so requires a bevy of resources. One way to make the job easier is to deploy modern technologies like drones or GPS tracking devices, just to name a few.
Studying poachers’ behavior is no easy task, so researchers from the University of York teamed up with the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) to learn more about East African elephant poaching activity. Their results have been published in the journal Biological Conservation this week.
#5 Asian elephant,More info:zsl
#4 Zimbabwe National Elephant Management Plan (2015-2020),More info:conservationaction
#3 Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks,More info:nationalgeographic
The oldest elephants wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone survivors of a conflict that killed about 90 percent of these beleaguered animals, slaughtered for ivory to finance weapons and for meat to feed the fighters.
Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.
Decades ago, some 4,000 elephants lived in Gorongosa, says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer who studies the park’s pachyderms. But those numbers dwindled to triple digits following the civil war. New, as yet unpublished, research she’s compiled indicates that of the 200 known adult females, 51 percent of those that survived the war—animals 25 years or older—are tuskless. And 32 percent of the female elephants born since the war are tuskless.
#2 PRESS RELEASE: Elephant Experts From Around the World Oppose Proposed Import of 18 Elephants from Swaziland to Zoos in Texas, Nebraska and Kansas,More info:conservationaction
#1 Huge fall in African elephant population as poaching crisis continues,More info:panda
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