What visitors to Zoo Atlanta can expect with $50 million project that includes expanded African Savanna exhibit. ... the sound of bulldozers and front-end loaders, moving dirt and hauling girders, ...

When hundreds of African savanna elephants dropped dead in Botswana's Okavango Delta in 2020, conservationists were alarmed. As the death toll rose—from dozens in March to more than 350 animals ...

Since the 2008 assessment, an elephant poaching crisis has also gripped Africa. In 2016, researchers reported in the journal PeerJ that between 2007 and 2014, savanna elephants declined by 30 ...

African savanna elephants are found across nearly two dozen countries, including Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and South Africa. In 2021, this species, ...

African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana africana, are the largest land animals. They can grow to be 10-13 feet tall, 19-24 feet long, and weigh as much as 15,000 pounds.

In 1930, approximately 10 million wild elephants were in Africa. Since then, elephant populations have dwindled. Today, these declines still continue.

A census of African savanna elephants in 15 countries between 2007 and 2014 found the population decreased by 144,000 animals. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

The African Savanna also features a sunken enclosure on one side, allowing visitors to observe giraffes being fed at human eye level, and a 70-foot-long underwater tank for viewing hippos.