Forest Elephants

“Forest elephants roam the rainforests of Central Africa nearly invisible to us except when they visit clearings in the forest. Self aware, empathetic, and highly social, mothers gather their families together with profoundly deep rumbles that travel far through the forest. Forest elephants are architects of the forest: creating paths used by other animals, dispersing seeds, even creating clearings like this one - clearings where humans come to hunt them. These giants are a key to majestic forests and all the diversity and wonder they hold -  but logging and ivory poaching could take it all away in our lifetime.”

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Never buy ivory.

• Always choose FSC-certified paper products and furniture.

• Avoid conflict minerals extracted from the forest elephant’s habitat in the Congo.

• Support groups such as the Cornell Lab’s Elephant Listening project.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Visit:

• The Elephant Listening Project– Cornell Lab

• Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

• The African Forest Elephant Foundation (AFEF)