JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants and painstakingly looked for matches in the vast African continent have identified two large areas where the ...
JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...
Africa is in the middle of what Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times calls an epic elephant slaughter. He says poachers are killing more... Elephant Poaching In Africa Is On The Rise STEVE INSKEEP, ...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa — Crack! Crack! The familiar sound pierces the bush as elephants bring down another acacia tree in Kruger National Park. Recently, the sound easily could be mistaken ...
Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been using artificial intelligence technology to track African forest elephants to safeguard them from poachers and other threats. The ELP tracks ...
"Ghost Elephants" follows National Geographic explorer Dr. Steve Boyes on an obsessive philosophical escapade through Namibia ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...
If left unaddressed, this conflict could worsen. Experts make difficult decision after troubling incidents with notorious wild elephant: 'Human-wildlife conflict' first appeared on The Cool Down.
YAOUNDE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. After weeks of the media mostly failing to realize why basketball star Yao Ming’s trip to Kenya was fairly ...
"GMA" is on location at a wildlife reserve in South Africa. — -- In Bela-Bela, South Africa, a group of researchers is turning the table on poachers and training elephants to do something pretty ...