Bill DuVall of Newton, currently has his beautiful collection of soapstone and ivory carvings on display at ... Ivory is most often from elephant tusks, but can also be from bones or tusks of ...

David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the ABC drama series Twin Peaks ...

ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling in the west of the country, the army said in ...

Pakkath Sreekuttan, a disturbed male elephant in its late 40, ran amok and injured 24 people during an annual feast at a mosque in Kerala’s Malappuram district on the intervening night of Tuesday and ...

A lone elephant’s fall into a 70-foot gorge in the Nilgiris is a heartbreaking reminder of the crisis facing India’s elephants. Shrinking habitats, rising conflicts, and vanishing corridors are ...

Instead, the weapons now come from African countries with weak control of their own weapons stockpiles, notably the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast. Sudan has also been an important ...

The idea that there could ever be too many elephants is an eyebrow-raiser for most people, who are used to reading about shrinking wildlife populations and an ivory poaching crisis. But in some pa ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

A bid by the Liberal government to ban zoos from keeping elephants and great apes has been quashed by the sudden halt of parliamentary proceedings, to the disappointment of animal-welfare advocates.

The picture of the Holy Father with the elephants inevitably evokes the memory of Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, who five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X and ...

A Spanish tourist was recently gored to death while bathing an elephant in Thailand. Photo / 123rf Humans have been interacting with elephants for centuries, said Hannah S Mumby, an assistant ...