Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much ...

Are these boots made from endangered elephants? We still don’t know why more than 400 elephants died in Botswana We still don’t know why more than 400 elephants died in Botswana How a warming ...

PROTECTION STATUS: Listed as a single species (“African elephant,” Loxodonta africana) as “threatened” with a 4(d) rule for ivory trade RANGE: Forest elephants live in the forests of West and Central ...

developing capacity to census elephants in 4 Central African range states; sharing lessons and building partnerships between wildlife managers across borders through technical exchange visits ...

Today’s proposal would revise the 4(d) rule for African elephants under the Endangered Species Act, which determines the protections the species receives. The United States is a major importer of ...

Ever wondered what the largest land animal is? "African Elephants: The Largest Animal on Earth," will give you the info you ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, ...

The African elephant population was halved in the 1970s and 1980s from ... The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is a United Nations Convention ...

Pushing trees over is not a new practice - elephants have ... populations of seven of the 11 African species have plummeted, and four species are now critically endangered. See today's front ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African and Asian species of elephants in U.S. zoos, as well as managed populations in Southeast Asia. Asian elephants are ...