Species
African forest elephant
Loxodonta cyclotis
A forest elephant profile centered on movement corridors, water access, and long-range use of dense tropical habitat.
Conservation pressure
Urgency: CriticalThis population is under extreme pressure. Every movement trace helps show where protection and corridor enforcement are most urgently needed.
Each corridor decision can indicate where conflict, poaching risk, or habitat squeeze is intensifying. Following now means seeing pressure as it forms, not after losses are irreversible.
What makes this species hard to track
Forest elephants move through dense rainforest, low-visibility corridors, and remote clearings. Signals often reflect long-range route decisions rather than simple day-to-day loops.
Dense tropical rainforest, swamp forest, and connected forest clearings in Central Africa.
Poaching, habitat loss, fragmentation, conflict with people, and pressure on migration corridors.
How this tracker is different
- Large-range movement highlights corridor integrity, not just local habitat use.
- Route shifts can signal immediate conservation bottlenecks across protected and unprotected land.
- Long-distance trajectories make this tracker useful for landscape-scale planning.
Forest Elephant Telemetry Programme via Movebank
Featured animals and current arcs
Corridor keeper arc: Ella is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Boundary tester arc: Iona is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Deep-forest anchor arc: Pfeffer is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
All tracked animals
Kumu is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Lango is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Ella is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Iona is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Bambala is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Ernestine is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mireille is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Spikey is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Dieudonne is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mambeleme is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Annnelisa is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Michelle is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Nuri is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Bertha is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Chloe is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Africa is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mammoth is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Tommy is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Powel is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Lione is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Sue is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
St Nick is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Owolo is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Nanou is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Yeepo is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Moba is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mouadje is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Sharon is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mossimbo is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Mwasi a Mossimbo is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Madame Nguende is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.
Pfeffer is a tracked forest elephant whose movement reveals corridor patterns, range, and landscape use.