Elephants have experienced vast population declines in recent years. The risks for conflict between elephants and humans could increase in the future due to climate change and other human-caused ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Elephants belong to an ancient lineage that extends back ...

THE urgent need to protect the Asian elephant, a keystone species that symbolises the balance of tropical ecosystems, was reaffirmed at the 2025 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

In Indonesia’s Aceh province, farmers are installing electrified fences to protect their crops from elephants, whose forest habitats are continually shrinking. Farmers can face economic disaster if a ...

At the northern tip of Sumatra, villagers deal with herds of elephants entering their villages and eating their crops. Incidents of human-wildlife conflict have intensified as more of the elephants’ ...