The dramatic decline in elephant numbers is largely attributable to illegal hunting and the persistent ivory trade. Efforts ...

In some parts of Africa, elephant numbers are increasing as a result of years of successful conservation efforts. But in some places large populations are giving rise to increased human-wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

The population of elephants in Africa has been dramatically reduced over the past century to driven in large part by the ivory trade and illegal hunting.

KARACHI: Despite carrying out several tests, including an X-ray, over the past two days, the authorities in Safari Park ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, ...

In parts of Tanzania, small farms are increasingly coming into contact with African elephants, leading to a hard conflict ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the clock was ticking before predators or exhaustion could take over.