The Trump administration had planned to start accepting permits Friday for hunters to bring trophies from elephants hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia into the United States, saying that new information ...

A suspected poacher died after encountering elephants in Kruger National Park in South Africa, having entered the area illegally.

Trophy hunting fees help fund conservation. Critics say the benefits are exaggerated and that killing big game animals is wrong.

South Africa has published new trophy hunting quotas for elephants, black rhinos and leopards, yet the scientific and administrative record behind those decisions remains largely invisible. After ...

Comedian Ricky Gervais calls trophy hunting 'one of the most pathetic and indefensible things human beings do' as he piles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of male elephants in the Okavango Delta, Botswana [File: Mike Hutchings/Reuters] Conservationists have raised the alarm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A local government in South Africa has said that its elephant population has become too large, but its plan to reduce numbers has ...

(Bloomberg) -- Botswana, which has the world’s biggest population of elephants, lifted its suspension on hunting, a move that is likely to spark further debate on a politically charged issue in the ...

To the intense dismay of conservationists and animal welfare advocates, Botswana has lifted a 5-year-old ban on elephant hunting. The Botswana government claims there is growing conflict between the ...