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, ...

A leading conservation group has warned of surging elephant poaching in parts of Botswana and estimated nearly 400 were killed across the country in 2017 and 2018, according to a report published ...

Killing of elephants driven by the illegal ivory trade has reached crisis levels in Africa, new information released today says. Across Africa elephants are being driven into decline due to poaching ...

In Kenya's Samburu ecosystem, an elephant named Ringlet endured more than the loss of relatives. After poaching destroyed her family line, she was taken in by a different elephant family in a rare, ...

WASHINGTON - As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. Researchers used analysis of DNA ...

African forest elephants are harder to study than their savanna relatives. They move through dense rainforest, often unseen, leaving behind tracks, dung, broken vegetation, and other subtle signs.

CNN — African elephants have drastically dwindled as targets of the illegal ivory trade, but the DNA contained within their tusks is pointing to the very criminal networks that poached them.

One of Africa’s largest wildlife preserves says it’s been a year since it found an elephant that was killed by poachers. The last time an elephant in the Niassa Reserve was recorded killed by a ...