Africa Forest elephants face growing risk of extinction | Africanews

It’s Africa’s lesser known elephant. Hidden deep in the jungle, the Forest elephants remain no less in danger.

In their latest updated “Red List”, which regroupes all at risk species, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature labled them as ‘critically endangered’.

Previously, elephants on the continent were assessed as a single species considered vulnerable, but not endangered.

“Today’s new IUCN Red List…