(Posted 21st April 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Andrei Ionescu, Earth.Com (U.S.), April 19, 2026 |
| Africa’s elephants were shaped by movement. For thousands of years, they crossed huge stretches of the continent, mixed with distant herds, and kept their populations genetically strong. A major new study shows that this old freedom is fading, and in some places the damage is already visible in the elephants’ DNA. The study comes from an international team that analyzed 232 whole genomes from savanna and forest elephants across 17 African countries. The project is the largest genomic study of African elephants so far and the first continent-wide effort of this scale. |
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