As many as 200 elephants will be slaughtered in Zimbabwe to feed the people left hungry by the worst drought in the country in decades. "Nearly half of the country's population facing the risk of ...

Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With ...

Fifteen thousand elephant tusks, piled so high and so deep that the smell of death still clinging to them is overwhelming. The largest are taller than the men who guard them. The heaviest tusk ...

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

Zimbabwe will cull 200 elephants as it faces an unprecedented drought that has led to food shortages while also tackling a ballooning population of the animals, the country's wildlife authority ...

A herd of more than 150 elephants, including several juveniles, has crossed into Zambia’s Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park from neighboring ...

You hear it before you see it: truncheons hitting metal in a slow, rhythmic beat, followed by a chant. Policemen wearing helmets packed into the back of a pick-up pound their weapons on the side ...

SURVEYING elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...