Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

BBC Travel Show ventures into Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, where an elephant in the wild unexpectedly stops the ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

A new 16-year-old African elephant named Titan arrived at Zoo Atlanta this week from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. The 8,200-pound elephant was born in South Africa in Eswatini and was ...

In the first continent-wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing 'pyrodiversity' boosts the variety of ...

Discover how giraffes quietly shape the savanna by dispersing seeds and helping ecosystems recover across Africa.

A decade-long experiment on the use of high-intensity fire to control bush encroachment in South Africa's Kruger National Park (KNP) has revealed that despite an initial short-term effect, these fires ...

The majestic animals most closely associated with the African savanna -- fierce lions, massive elephants, towering giraffes -- may be relatively minor players when it comes to shaping the ecosystem.

This study describes the termite fauna of the South African Savanna Ecosystem Project study area at Nylsvley Reserve, Naboomspruit, northern Transvaal. Twenty species of fifteen genera and two ...

African savannah fires are key sources of trace gases and aerosols, yet their true magnitude remains relatively poorly constrained. Here we present a detailed investigation of the amount of unburned ...