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- Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth and have distinctly massive bodies, large ears, and long trunks They use their trunks to pick up objects, trumpet warnings, greet other elephants, or suck up water for drinking or bathing, among other uses
- African Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
There are two species of African elephants—the savanna (or bush) elephant and the forest elephant Savanna elephants are larger than forest elephants, and their tusks curve outwards In addition to being smaller, forest elephants are darker and their tusks are straighter and point downward
- Top 10 Elephant Facts - World Wildlife Fund
Though elephants are native to only Africa and Asia, they hold significant cultural and symbolic meaning around the world WWF focuses on conserving the world's largest land mammal in landscapes across both Asia and Africa
- Species Spotlight: African Elephant | Pages | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Elephants are a keystone species that dramatically affect their landscape as seed dispersers, influencing forest composition
- Asian Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Elephants and many other wildlife species are now finding their historical corridors and forest habitats fragmented and destroyed This is pushing people and wildlife into closer proximity to each other, resulting in increased negative, and often dangerous interactions
- Tackling critical threats facing Asian elephants | Stories | WWF
Elephants are integral to maintaining healthy ecosystems, including clean water, fertile soils, and climate regulation for many other species and millions of people As a keystone species, elephants create new habitats and resources for other animal and plant species and contribute to forest biodiversity through the nutrients and seeds they
- The status of African elephants | Magazine Articles | WWF
Botswana is currently home to more elephants than any other African country, and southern Africa remains a stronghold for 293,000, or 70%, of the estimated remaining African elephants African elephants are highly social creatures that live in herds led by older, single female matriarchs
- African Forest Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
African elephants have less room to roam than ever before as expanding human populations convert land for agriculture, settlements and developments The elephants’ range shrank from three million square miles in 1979 to just over one million square miles in 2007
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