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. Released at the world’s largest ...

The overall African elephant population plummeted by over 20 per cent in the past decade, falling to an estimated 415,000 mainly due to a dramatic surge in ivory poaching. According to the IUCN, ...

Entire elephant populations are dying out in many African countries due to poaching on a massive scale, wildlife regulator CITES warned Friday, while also hailing the continent for clamping down on ...

Upon carefully examining 16 years’ worth of African elephant family movements, researchers from Colorado State University say they’ve discerned key behavioral traits with the potential to change how ...

In observance of Elephant Appreciation Day, explore elephants' emotional and cognitive intelligence and the memories they ...

Habitat fragmentation is blamed for the lack of genetic diversity in elephant populations. Elephants that historically intermingled have more diverse DNA. Conservationists have sounded the alarm for ...

Africa's elephant population has been reduced by about 30 percent overall in just the period 2007 to 2014, the study said. Stopping the killing of elephants for their tusks could add some $25 million ...

Washington, DC—Fifty-four members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter today to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, urging the United States to vocally and strongly support the highest ...

In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise. The news had international ...