The elephant population in Kruger has drastically risen in the last century. Park managers must now contend with an over-abundance of intelligent, endangered, ecosystem engineers.

Peter and Phanuel Mokgalaka were arrested in Selwane Village after trying to sell elephant tusks to undercover police officers. Officers also seized a hunting rifle and ammunition during the sting ...

Elephant killings on the Tanzanian side three decades ago prompted similar anger and led to the announcement of a moratorium on hunting. In December 1994, three Amboseli elephants were killed in ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

EXCLUSIVE: A British vet and a dedicated team of rangers and pilots tagged these elephants for the first time in a bid to ...

There are currently around 130,000-140,000 elephants in Botswana, which has a population of 2.6 million people -- that's around 1 elephant for every 15 humans.

Legend has it that the critters in Africa are harder to kill than those in North America. If you’re talking about buffalo, hippo, and elephant, that’s partly true because there’s simply ...

How strong is Africa’s last elephant stronghold? Newly published aerial surveys—out just weeks after the country lifted its hunting ban—indicate that poaching is on the rise in Botswana.

Now wildlife experts fear that foreign hunters may soon wipe out the last of Africa’s “super tusker” elephants which have all become habituated to humans – meaning they trust people and ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rural farming communities on the border between the southern African countries of Malawi and Zambia are seeking damages and threatening to sue an international ...

PIKE generally increased in 2003–10, peaked in 2011 and declined significantly in 2015–20, especially in eastern and southern Africa. The Elephant Trade Information System, another limb of ...