If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

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

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 ...

At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the thousands for their tusks, it became abundantly clear that African elephants ...