Secret LanguageIn 2010 the CBS 60 Minutes film crew traveled to the Central African Republic to do a story on our research into the acoustic communication of forest elephants. It was an amazing and busy week! Constant changes of plan, new…
March 22, 2017- China’s Promise
Late in 2016 the president of China, Xi Jingping, provided a timetable of action to reduce the escalating slaughter of elephants in Africa due to demand for ivory.
March 24, 2017 - April 2017 – Optimism and Vulnerability
I write to all of you this time with particularly conflicted emotions. China is actually meeting some of its stated goals to eliminate nearly all of its domestic ivory trade
April 8, 2017 - Katy Payne on Elephants
Elephants in the wild seem to coordinate their movements even when widely separated. Male elephants seem to be able to find females in estrous even over long distances.
Bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne and her colleagues have found that elephants use low…
April 17, 2017 - Peter Wrege on ELP
In the dense forests of Africa, there is a species of forest elephant that has proved very difficult to study. Indeed, even simple questions like how many elephants there are and where they are located have been impossible to answer.
Peter…
April 18, 2017
K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics Elephant Listening Project
