NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s largest mammals because of an ...
Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.
LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...
A Spanish tourist reportedly has been "trampled to death" by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened ...
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 ...
The new assessment totals 135,690 forest elephants, 16 percent more than the figure estimated in 2016, with an additional ...
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Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study
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 ...
In Limpopo, a herd of seven tame elephants has advanced the cause of science like few others have done. The latest finding is ...
Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...
DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — One of Africa’s largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger ...
African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...
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