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

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 ...

There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush) elephant. Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the African ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

From honeybees to elephants, here are six animals with female bosses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most animal societies are ...

The mystery of why hundreds of endangered African elephants have been dropping dead may have been solved by scientists. Thirty-four elephants were found dead in northwestern Zimbabwe between August 24 ...

Our planet is home to some truly fascinating animals, from creatures that look like aliens to massive mammals and tiny insects. Every animal species on Earth has characteristics and a temperament that ...

Billions of animals make migratory journeys each year on land, in rivers and oceans, and in the skies, crossing national boundaries and continents, with some travelling thousands of kilometres across ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Animals that migrate face myriad threats to their survival, all of which have a common denominator: human activity. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind report published Monday by the Convention on ...