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<p>Older elephants in East Africa will be most severely impacted by climate change, threatening the long-term survival of this vulnerable African mammal, according to a modelling study by Simon Nampindo at the Wildlife Conservation Society and Timothy Randhir at the University of Massachusetts, published in the open-access journal PLOS Sustainability and Transformation on February 14.</p>
The recent study examined African elephants in the Greater Virunga Landscape, where they once thrived
The loss of older African elephants to worsening heat and drought poses a grave threat to younger members of their herds, a new study warns.
Older elephants will have less chance of survival as the climate warms, and this will reverberate throughout the surrounding landscape.
As part of a collaborative project between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the world's largest field conservation organizations, researchers have conducted the first-of-its-kind research on how global climate change is affecting African elephants.