The forest elephants are facing more severe threat. African savanna elephants are currently listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This means they face a high risk of extinction in the wild.
With populations declining by over 86% in 31 years due to threats like poaching for their ivory tusks, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict.
Elephants have a slow reproductive rate, which makes it difficult for populations to recover from declines. Estimated that Africa's elephant population dropped by 111,000 elephants in the span of a decade prior to 2016, leaving only about 400,000 elephants remaining. I hope we can help these animals.
