Species/African forest elephant
African forest elephant
Loxodonta cyclotis
CRCritically Endangered
- Range
- Forests of West and Central Africa
- Population
- Down ~86% in 31 years
- Trend
- decreasing
- Last assessed
- 2021
Split from the savanna elephant and listed as Critically Endangered in 2021. A gardener of the Congo forest — seeds do not plant themselves.
Losing the elephant is losing the forest’s architecture.
Threats
- Ivory poaching
- Forest loss
What you can do
- Support ivory-demand reduction
No legal domestic markets, no ‘antique’ loopholes you cannot verify.