The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

The bull elephant who died Saturday was named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park, a protected area in southern Kenya ...

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

Africa’s elephants are out of control, and the continent’s people, and plants, are paying the price. Far too many ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

The bull elephant, aged 54, passed away on Saturday in Amboseli National Park, a protected area in southern Kenya popular ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's elephant population fell around 20 percent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The number of elephants in two wildlife sanctuaries in Tanzania has fallen by nearly 42 percent in just three years, a census showed on Tuesday, as poachers increasingly ...

Niokolo-Koba National Park (PNNK) in Senegal has long been a haven for some of West Africa's most-elusive wildlife. Yet among them, one creature has remained almost mythical—an elephant so rarely seen ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...