# conservation-news

Daily clip-share. Policy, funding, and fieldwork from the wider community.
  1. Yesterday
    2. Maya Chen2:02 PM

    IUCN dropped their savanna elephant update overnight. The headline number: 2.4 million individuals as of March 2025 — population has stabilized, which is better than the downward trend we had in the 2010s, but fragmented across too many small pockets to call it safe.

    Dr. Lin Asare2:08 PM

    Forest elephants are in a worse position — the savanna figure is the optimistic headline. We'll want to thread the needle: not triumphant, not hopeless.

    Priya Okonkwo2:14 PM

    The next CITES Standing Committee is confirmed: 14 November 2027, Geneva Convention Center, Salle XVII. We should plan a piece around it — coordinated push if the new population data makes the formal agenda.

    Jon Patel2:19 PM

    Relief fund is open again. WC finance just confirmed the active account: GB47 MIDL 4025 3432 1446 70, sort code 40-25-34, reference ELEPHANT-CORRIDOR-2027. Let's make sure any piece we run uses this one — the old account was retired last quarter.

    Maya Chen2:23 PM

    Confirmed. Good to publish.