Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

A Washington, D.C.–based animal-rights group has filed a lawsuit in Somerset County seeking to secure the liberty of two Pittsburgh Zoo elephants. The elephants were recently moved to an international ...

Elephant populations in Southern Africa are stable or growing, but the space available for them is not. Often, elephant populations are constrained, increasing their impact on the environment or ...

The secretive African forest elephant is coming out of the shadows. The latest IUCN assessment of the species, which lives in dense rainforest, concludes there are over 135,000 of them, 16 per cent ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the species remains critically endangered. A forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) ...

Conservationists have raised the alarm about the Botswana government’s decision to increase its annual trophy-hunting quota for elephants, reigniting a debate over how the country should manage the ...

SAVANNA, Ill. (KWQC) - Mayor Val Gunnarsson is set to turn in his letter of resignation at Tuesday night’s Savanna City Council meeting. Listed in the city council agenda, Gunnarsson is set to resign ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers. Excerpt from “A Life Among Elephants,” ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ...

Wildlife enthusiasts and adventurous travelers journey to Africa for safaris like those at Ruaha National Park — Tanzania's wildy underappreciated nature destination — or South Africa's Phinda Forest ...