Elephants Interpret Human Voices

While one of ELP’s missions is to decipher the language of forest elephants, it turns out elephants…

The Long Term Effects of Poaching on Forest Elephants

Elephant Minds and a Case for Empathy

Empathy is defined as: “the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by…

China Bans Ivory

ELP director Peter Wrege comments on the implications of China’s recent ban on…

Commuters of the Forest

Elephant roads in Central African rainforests

Gardeners of the Forest

As the most frugivorous (fruit eating) of the elephants, the forest elephant plays a key gardening role by dispersing…

Solving Peto’s Paradox with Elephant Cancer Resistance

Forest Elephant growth rate portends disaster

A recently published study¹ indicates that forest elephant population growth is…

The Congo Basin-Hotbed of Biodiversity

In addition to forest elephants, the rainforests of Central Africa are also home to many…

Meet Me in the Bai

Forest clearings are important to forest elephant social structure