The new assessment totals 135,690 forest elephants, 16 percent more than the figure estimated in 2016, with an additional ...

TikTok is rapidly growing in Africa and is being used to sell bushmeat, underscoring the role of social media in the global ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National ...

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia published Thursday reveals a larger and more robust population than previously thought, raising hopes the endangered ...

The discovery was the latest in a string of elephant deaths in recent months that has heightened concern over the endangered ...

JOHANNESBURG - Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every ...

Nature is endowed with innumerable creatures, and each one is unique in its own way. Among them, many species across the ...