Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...

Called “ 96 Elephants,” a reference to the number of elephants now gunned down each day by poachers, the WCS campaign focuses on securing effective U.S. moratorium laws; bolstering elephant protection ...

In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise. The news had international ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - An elephant orphanage in Kenya is seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants brought there because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa, the founder said Wednesday. Dame ...

He also brought the poaching crisis to the world’s attention and helped spur global ivory bans and conservation initiatives. In the 1970s, Douglas-Hamilton kept tabs on elephants from the air, ...