A new study by researchers at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan-Cocody in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has reported a large-scale and disastrous decline in the country’s forest elephant population. The study was published in the open-access journal “PLOS ONE”. It is probable that, in precolonial and colonial times, the country contained one of the largest elephant populations in West Africa – hence its name. But by the early 1990s the country’s total population of savannah and forest elephants had fallen to less than 360.
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