Africa's small population of forest elephants is dwindling especially rapidly because, by all accounts, their 'pink ivory' is especially prized by the Chinese.
Andrea Turkalo, a researcher who has spent more than twenty years camped out near a bai, or clearing, in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in the Central African Republic, talks about the lives, emotions, and dwindling population of forest elephants.
By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen By Malcolm Gladwell The Forest Elephants Andrea Turkalo, a researcher who has spent more than twenty years camped out near a bai, or clearing, in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in the Central African Republic, talks about the lives, emotions, and dwindling population of forest elephants.
By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By David Remnick By Doreen St. Félix By Karen Russell The Forest Elephants Andrea Turkalo, a researcher who has spent more than twenty years camped out near a bai, or clearing, in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in the Central African Republic, talks about the lives, emotions, and dwindling population of forest elephants.
The Forest Elephants Andrea Turkalo, a researcher who has spent more than twenty years camped out near a bai, or clearing, in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in the Central African Republic, talks about the lives, emotions, and dwindling population of forest elephants.
By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick By Ceridwen Dovey By Jia Tolentino The Forest Elephants Andrea Turkalo, a researcher who has spent more than twenty years camped out near a bai, or clearing, in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, in the Central African Republic, talks about the lives, emotions, and dwindling population of forest elephants.
In the study years, the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62percentt.
Populations of forest floor bryophytes that persist under those patches of tree canopy remaining after clear-cutting could reduce dispersal distances and thereby contribute to conservation of species across the landscape.
It harbors globally significant populations of forest elephant and forest buffalo, and very high densities of western lowland gorilla.
Northern Congo harbours one of the largest remaining populations of forest elephants [19], and the largest remaining populations of western gorillas and chimpanzees in Africa [30], [31].
These three strategies are implemented with the combined goal of conserving ecologically functional populations of forest elephants, great apes and other focal species across the Ndoki-Likouala landscape.
