A look at the long-term international campaign to protect African elephants from poaching, highlighting the role of ...

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

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.

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

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

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 current elephant poaching crisis costs African countries around US$25 million annually in lost tourism revenue, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. Comparing ...

Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

In March, AWI submitted comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) urging the agency to ban the import of live African elephants and their trophies into the United States due to significant ...

Elephants in Rwanda. In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analysed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across ...

Thailand has given a contraceptive vaccine to wild elephants for the first time in an effort to control their ballooning population, a conservation official said on Wednesday. They say an elephant ...