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

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today adopted new restrictions on U.S. imports of African elephant hunting trophies and live elephants but stopped short of a total ban on imports.

Hunting “sort of got into my blood ... Everything narrowed to a nervous point. African elephants live to be 60 or 70, and the biggest tuskers usually are older than 45.

Hunting Elephants in 19th Century Africa African men spearing an elephant in the 1800s. Illustration published 1891. Source: Original edition is from my own archives ...

Numbering three to five million in the last century, African elephant populations were severely reduced to its current levels because of hunting. In the 1980s, an estimated 100,000 elephants were ...

Johannesburg — Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 African elephants to "roam free" in Germany in a public dispute between the nations over hunting and ...

Titan, a 16-year-old adult male African elephant, arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas ...

African forest elephants are the elusive cousin of the African savanna elephant. They inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa. Their preference for dense forest habitat prohibits ...