Female elephants without any tusks became much more common after intense poaching slashed the elephant population of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique by 90 percent.

Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching ...

African elephants are being born without tusks due to poaching, researchers say. The species could become extinct in some areas, with those elephants that do survive evolving to be almost ...

Poaching has also pushed tusk sizes down in some heavily hunted areas, such as southern Kenya. A 2015 study conducted by Duke University and the Kenya Wildlife Service compared the tusks of ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – A Sumatran elephant has been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province with its tusks cut off, raising suspicion it was killed by poachers. The carcass of the estimated 25 ...

But, both species of elephant are experiencing increased instances of members without tusks. As poachers kill off elephants with the most prominent trunks, they’re taking them out of the ...

Here's why elephants without tusks are in danger. The illegal trade in Asian elephant skins—for jewelry and traditional medicine—has expanded across Southeast Asia.

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said Friday was the country's largest ivory seizure.

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...