A new study analyzed the largest archaeological cargo of African ivory ever found, researchers report. All of the elephant tusks were from African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis.

Unfortunately, African forest elephants have faced habitat loss and poaching over recent years, leaving them critically endangered, according to Global Conversation. On the opposite end of the ...

A five-year jail sentence for a notorious elephant poacher could provide a lifeline for wildlife in and around an African rainforest that survived the Ice Age ... There are in addition 130 different ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...