In Animals in Danger: Elephants, follow the everyday lives of elephants living in forests and on grasslands in Africa and Asia: their habitat; physical characteristics; diet; life cycles; behaviour. In the past 25 years, the African elephant population has dropped from 1.25 million animals to just over 250 000.What are the threats facing these endangered giants? How can poaching be stopped and the elephants' vanishing habitat be saved? What can you do to help?