Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as ...

From Thailand to Africa, these ethical elephant sanctuaries are protecting gentle giants and showing travelers how wildlife ...

Africa is the last stand for wildlife. That is how Peter and Corie Knights describe the continent they have devoted their ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

C’sar, the North Carolina Zoo’s longest-tenured resident and the oldest African bull elephant in the United States, died Dec.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

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. Africa’s elephant population has ...

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the South African bush, this unlikely quartet has banded together to develop an ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for releasing a final rule today that provides additional Endangered Species Act protections for ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...