DNA evidence and lots of detective work have revealed the networks behind illegal trade in African elephant ivory, centering on three smuggling cartels in Kenya, Uganda and Togo. The case is laid ...

African elephant poaching has declined, but study warns they are still vulnerable By Leah Asmelash and Saeed Ahmed , CNN 2 minute read ...

Around 40,000 African elephants are illegally killed for their tusks every year. But catching ivory poachers, and successfully convicting them, has remained incredibly hard. In 2016, for instance ...

One of Kenya's most adored elephants, who had giant tusks and was known as Satao, has been killed for his ivory—a "monumental" loss, experts say.. Poachers shot the bull elephant with a poisoned ...

Elephant poaching in Africa continued trending downward in 2016, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, reports. Records show the highest level of seizures of illegally ...

(Updates with delay to debate) By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent THE HAGUE, June 12 (Reuters) - Kenya and Mali reduced their demands to extend a 1989 world ban on the trade in elephant ...

African elephants are the world's largest land mammals, with males, on average, reaching up to 3m in height and weighing up to 6 tonnes. Following population declines over several decades due to ...

Ariño, now 95, defends legal hunting in Africa in his books and recounts how he once shot a record 20 animals in just 75 ...

As previously stated, the ivory trade, habitat loss, poaching and elephant-human conflict pose threats to elephant populations. Since 1979, the habitat of African elephants has been reduced by ...