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Common name Binomial name/Trinomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image African bush elephant: Loxodonta africana: 352,000 [1]: EN [1] [1]The population has been reduced dramatically (african elephant populations in 18 countries declined by ~30%) since a mass ivory sell off by southern african countries in the early 2000's to present time.
In 2020, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to the population declining by half over "the last three generations". [149] Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [150] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [149] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [150]
In 1987, it was estimated that the African elephant population had declined to 760,000 individuals. In 1989, only 608,000 African elephants were estimated to have survived. [ 61 ] In 1989, the Kenyan Wildlife Service burned a stockpile of tusks in protest against the ivory trade.
In response, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said Tuesday that he will send 20,000 elephants to Germany from Botswana's population of 130,000. “It’s not a joke,” Masisi told the German tabloid ...
An international conservation organization has listed African elephants as critically endangered after a sharp population decline.
The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India. The Northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura together with West Bengal account for 30% of the elephants and 5% of the tiger population.
There is a small population of perhaps 10-25 elephants living on the escarpment to the east of Luanda in the Kambondo forest (Hines, pers. comm. 2015) and sightings of these elephants are marked as point records. Which are the southernmost forest elephants in Africa.
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