The Bush Elephants of Uganda in East Africa

 Uganda is a country in East Africa blessed with many National Parks and Game Reserves. 

The most prominent among them are Queen Elizabeth National Park and Murchison Falls National Park. 

Bush Elephants in Uganda faced extinction 35-40 years ago with their numbers plummeting from 50,000 to a mere 400. 

From 1990 onwards, there has been explosive growth in the Bush Elephant Population with Bush Elephants now numbering 8,000 in early 2026. 

If Bush Elephant Conservation is extremely successful in Uganda, Elephant Numbers could reach almost 20,000 by 2030. 

The carrying capacity of the National Parks all across Uganda is 50,000 Bush Elephants. 

Help Save The Bush Elephants of Ruaha National Park in Tanzania

 Ruaha National Park in Tanzania was once a Veritable Stronghold of Bush Elephants in East Africa. 

40 years ago, there were 50,000 plus Bush Elephants in Ruaha National Park. Because of Catastrophic Elephant Poaching in and around Ruaha National Park between 2009 and 2014 The Elephant Population fell below 30,000. 

Ruaha National Park is capable of hosting an Elephant Population of atleast 40,000 provided the Elephant Herds are strictly protected against Elephant Poacher Gangs. 

Ruaha National Park is Elephant Country at its very best. Savannah Grasslands are spread out all across Ruaha National Park affording Elephant Herds enough room to roam and breed. 

The Matriarch Elephants of Ruaha National Park are Priceless. 

Mamerle The Magnificent Cowtusker

Mamerle, is a Magnificent Cowtusker who lives in the Greater Kruger Wilderness. Mamerle has exceptional Tusks. Mamerle is a cowtusker who is blessed now with Four Twins. Mamerle is a rarity in the raw African Wilderness.

Tim, The Iconic Tusker From Amboseli NP Is Now 50 Years Old

Birthdays mean nothing to elephants, but they mean a huge amount to those of us who are dedicated to protecting the species. Each year of life is another year of success, and this year marks a big milestone for one big elephant.

Tim, one of Amboseli’s largest and best-known elephants, is 50.

It’s remarkable that Tim has gotten to this age, given that each day he faces just about every threat possible to his species.

Sadly, this has been the case from early on. Within his first few years of life he lost three of his relatives to suspected poaching incidents, followed by his mother Trista, who was speared to death by poachers when he was only 8.

He would continue to lose more family members as time passed, including his sister Tallulah, speared in 2003.

Tim has since come to represent all of the different values, positive and negative, that humans place on an elephant’s life. To poachers he is a target, to farmers he is a costly nuisance, to tourists he is a marvel, and to conservationists he is a symbol of hope that our efforts are working.

And he has certainly had some of his own bumps on the way to 50. In the last five years, he has been speared twice by angry farmers during his night-time raids onto farmlands.

Most recently, in November of last year, Big Life worked with Kenya Wildlife Service and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in a monumental life-saving effort to rescue Tim after he got stuck in a mud-pit deep in farmlands.

We have no doubt that Tim will continue to keep us busy in future, but for now we are very happy to hear that he has come into musth, a hormonal state that requires a healthy body condition and is usually associated with mating.

Given that he hasn’t come into musth for the past two years, this is a good sign that he has recovered from all of his recent ordeals.

It also means that he will be spending his time looking for females rather than keeping Big Life’s rangers busy in the farms at night, and with any luck will be passing on those incredible genes to the tuskers of the future!

Credits : Big Life Foundation 

Elephant Matriarchs and Awesome and Amazing Bachelor Bulls On The Sure Path to Death

Yes, The Elephants Of Botswana will be history when the Trophy Hunters come to Botswana in their hordes and start killing these Precious Pachyderms for their Ivory.

The Iconic and Precious Matriarchs all over Botswana are in "Grave Danger" all because the spineless and greedy Botswana Govt has sold its soul to Trophy Hunters.

Where will this all end ?? Rather when will it all end ??

The Whole Of Botswana will resemble The Deep Tropical Rain Forests of Central Africa which are being emptied rapidly of its rare "Forest Elephants'".

Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve will be littered with the carcasses of Legally Poached Elephants.

Matriarchs usually pass on their legacy to the next generation. But, If they are killed in large numbers what legacy can they pass on ??

I fear greatly for these Elephants who mean everything to me despite the fact that I live in India. 

FOREST ELEPHANTS OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ARE IN GRAVE DANGER

In Africa, there are two kinds of elephants: savanna and forest elephants. The species diverged somewhere between two and six million years ago, with the better-known savanna elephants spreading over the plains and open woodlands of Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa while forest elephants stayed behind in the dense forests at the center of the continent.

Although the two occasionally hybridize, they are widely viewed as separate species. Forest elephants are smaller, with smaller and straighter tusks. The size of their tusks, however, has not protected them from rampant poaching, because the tusks have a distinctive hue, sometimes known as “pink ivory,” that has made them particularly valuable.

Something about the nobility of forest elephants regularly raises concern for their extinction. The tropical forests of the Congo Basin, once considered impenetrable, are now yielding to logging roads, mines, and even palm-oil plantations. In 2013, a widely respected study by Fiona Maisels, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, found that, between 2002 and 2011, the population of forest elephants had declined by sixty-two per cent. Perhaps as few as eighty thousand remain.

The story of these declining numbers is also a story of habitat destruction. Where forest elephants exist in an undisturbed state, they build networks of trails through the deep forest. These trails connect mineral deposits, fruit groves, and other essentials of forest-elephant life. In Central Africa, there are dozens of fruit trees whose seeds are too large to pass through the guts of any other animal and for which forest elephants have evolved as the sole dispersers. These trees line the forest-elephant paths. Where elephant populations are disturbed, the paths disappear.

Read The Whole Article Here :

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-forest-elephants-of-the-central-african-republic-are-in-peril

Wild African Elephants at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

So Cool. What a Sight To See.

Wild African Elephants in Hwange NP in Zim drinking water from a pool right under the nose of Wildlife Tourists.

Wildlife Viewing does not get any better than this.

Hwange NP in Zimbabwe is Ethereal. There are more Pachyderms there at any given point of time than Tourists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WidH2GF0Zic