These giant mammals roam Africa and Asia, but their numbers are dwindling. Learn how many elephants are left in the world and what can be done to save the elephant population.
. Those numbers have been plummeting though, and as of 2016, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature African Elephant Status Report, there were justAfrican forest elephant in the Lekoli River at Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of the Congo
but research in 2010 actually pin-pointed that they split on the evolutionary tree maybe as far as five million years ago, the African forest elephants, which are found for more than 50 percent of the Congo basin, make up just one-quarter of all African elephants “There are settlements, there are plantations, industries, farming, mining, and also the railways, the roads, they are all crisscrossing across the forest areas because all everybody is aspiring for is development,” says Panda. Most importantly, this encroachment means humans and elephants need to live closer and closer, causing conflict.
Like all big conservation issues like these, there’s no clear-cut answer as to what we can do to help these creatures thrive, according to Panda. The approach has to be multipronged, and mainly focus on how there just isn’t enough space in the world.
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