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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...

British law firm Leigh Day said it is representing 10 people living near the Kasungu National Park on the Malawi-Zambia ...

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 ...