AllAfrica.com The decisions made by the Namibian and Zimbabwean governments to slaughter hundreds of elephants amid a ...

Elephant numbers are surging in southern Africa, with fewer natural predators, reduced hunting pressure and feeding by ...

A swift and coordinated operation by officers from Lungalunga Police Station, alongside Kenya Wildlife officers from Nairobi ...

The community of elephants that call Africa's Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) home once thrived there. During multiple surveys of in the 1960s and 1970s, scientists found that specific locations ...

In certain extreme circumstances, however, it’s possible to see the impacts of natural selection in just a few years – for ...

Kenya is relocating 50 elephants from Mwea National Reserve due to overcrowding. The population of elephants there has increased from 50 to 156, causing the animals to wander into nearby villages.

Erustus Kanga, director-general of Kenya Wildlife Service, emphasized the importance of elephants as a keystone species in ...

Many species, like Javan rhinos and Amur leopards, are critically endangered due to habitat loss and poaching. Conservation ...

The announcement adds pressure on China to halt its legal ivory trade, which experts say has helped fuel the highest rate of African elephant poaching in decades. The countries are the main allies ...

Your support makes all the difference. The Maryland Zoo announced Thursday that its oldest African elephant was euthanized on Tuesday after a fall. Anna, who was 49 years old, had multiple known ...

It’s a gut-wrenching concept: drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds ...

In response, the Kenya Wildlife Service was established in 1989 to combat poaching ... census of 2021 recording 36,280 elephants. In March 2021, the African forest elephant was listed as ...