Nicole Antonio, Sascha Bos Thu, January 18, 2024 at 8:45 AM UTC 9 min read Two African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) walk in the rainforest of the Congo Basin. guenterguni / Getty Images ...

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling ...

“Kids all over the world play with stuffed elephants in bedrooms. African forest elephants also promote rainforest diversity in a multitude of ways.” ...

An elephant digging for salt-rich mud in the Dzanga baï in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy Jan Teede.

In the West and Central African rainforests, forest elephants are unwittingly helping to save the world. As this relatively small elephant tears through the rainforest, stripping bark from trees ...

In this case, African forest elephants play an important role. As part of their study, researchers analyzed the foraging and eating patterns of elephants in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the ...

According to new research, these tropical forest elephants likely have “profound” effects on forest ecosystems — and may be an overlooked climate change solution.

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins.