Data from the report shows increased poaching across the entire range of the African elephant, but the highest rates are in Central Africa. “The rise in levels of illegal killing and the dynamics ...

Even Botswana, a safe haven for wildlife for so long can no longer escape the bloody tide and more and more reports of poaching are emerging. We cannot fully comprehend the extent of the impact the ...

The sale briefly opened ivory trade between China and Japan and four African nations (in dash outlines) -- clockwise from left, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Elephant poaching ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than ... How could Tanzania, a country which suffers more elephant poaching than any other country on earth, a country which has exported more ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines ... The study, "Survey based inference of continental African elephant decline," published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Alongside illegal poaching, legal hunting tours in Africa are popular with some Americans, including Donald Trump Jr, who was pictured holding a severed elephant’s tail more than a decade ago.

Rural communities on the border between the African countries of Malawi and Zambia are threatening to sue an international ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... and lack of enforcement ability, while anti-poaching efforts are inadequate. On top of this, loss of habitat, ...

Our team of African elephant conservation and survey data ... Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, given the level of ivory poaching and the degree of human population growth and ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species ... THREATS: S avannah elephants are threatened by the rapidly spreading poaching crisis, human-elephant conflict and ...