It’s best to talk with your doctor before you book travel in the weeks before or following your surgery. They can advise you on the safest timeframe for air travel.
Forest elephants are uniquely adapted to the dense forest habitat of the Congo Basin, but are in sharp decline due to poaching for the international ivory trade and habitat loss and fragmentation. It is estimated that probably one-quarter to one-third of the total African elephant population is made up of forest elephants.