The real giant of the World Cup isn't Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka or Lionel Messi -- it's Namibia, a four-ton orphaned elephant ...

South Africa-based journalist Ed Stoddard coined ... A large tree, recently damaged by an elephant, droops nearby. Today, elephant hunting only happens in Mababe for six months out of the year.

But the hunters who killed one of Africa’s semi-tame elephants knew ... the end result was not a complete moratorium on elephant hunting in northern Tanzania.” Dr Moss insisted that there ...

Forest elephant sites have declined on average ... campaigns such as those in the UK to ban the import of hunting trophies – and Africa is the main target – were counterproductive ...

Hyaenodontas were important hypercarnivores in Eurasia, Africa and North America during the Oligocene - a geologic epoch that lasted from about 33.9 to 23 million years ago - but declined towards ...