The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has made available recordings taken of African elephants living in Ghana and Central African Republic as part of the Elephant Listening Project. A collaboration between IFAW and Cornell University's Bioacoustic Research Program, the project focuses on the rarely seen forest subspecies of African elephant, which lives deep in equatorial forests and cannot be easily monitored or counted.
Less intrusive to wildlife than other forms of monitoring, acoustic monitoring can help understand migration patterns and reactions to destabilizing forces such as mining, logging and human development. In addition to dealing with these factors, the African elephant also faces the illegal international trade in ivory products.
GET INFORMED
- Listen to African forest elephants through the Elephant Listening Project
- Learn more about the Elephant Listening Project
- Adopt an elephant from the World Wildlife Fund for $25
- Sign a petition urging the North American and European members of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to oppose the proposal to designate China as a trading partner in raw ivory
- Sign a petition urging eBay to ban all ivory sales on its site
- Sign a petition to end elephant culling in South Africa
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