“Dr Stephen Blake has trekked hundreds of miles on foot with pygmies to study Congo forest elephants. He talks to Stuart Coles about these ‘hidden giants” - Telegraph

“The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) placed the African elephant on its most critically endangered list, Appendix I, in 1989. The ban led to more aggressive anti-poaching campaigns and increased investment in wildlife protection, and set African elephants on the road to recovery. But a new study from Stephen Blake, Samantha Strindberg, Fiona Maisels, and colleagues warns that while savannah elephants may indeed be rebounding?in part because they live in countries with long histories of wildlife management, where protection is facilitated by open plains habitats and usually good infrastructure?their forest relatives, hidden in the Congo Basin rainforests, still face intense poaching pressure.” - EurekAlert!