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 ...

I am shocked, but not surprised, to find ourselves in the middle of another poaching crisis, one that is having massive impact throughout the African continent. A small trinket or a large extravagant ...

The smallest of three elephant species ... that targeting the armed gangs in the anti-poaching struggle ignores the larger problems. The South African writer Adam Welz has argued that “the ...

Over the past several years, as elephant poaching has reached crisis proportions ... enacted what amounted to a ban on international sales of African ivory. The ban went into effect in 1990 ...

Not, I imagine, that there is a solitary African elephant inspecting the ground just feet away from my head ... On the ground beside us lie three huge rhino skulls, killed by poachers. A rise in ...

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 ...

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

while anti-poaching efforts are inadequate. On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, ...

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.

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker ... THREATS: S avannah elephants are threatened by the rapidly spreading poaching crisis, ...