When Dr. Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the country’s wildlife ...

African Savanna Elephants are the largest living land animals. Henry, shot in Angola in 1955, weighed 24,000 pounds. Henry is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum since 1959. Largest Elephant in the ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...

Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth with very few predators. These powerful animals can literally stomp ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

When poaching amplifies the effect of higher hunting quotas, it is bad news for the future of Botswana’s elephant population ...

A new study has found that bird flu wiped out half of the world’s largest population of elephant seals. Researchers have estimated that 53,000 female elephant seals died in 2023 after bird flu hit ...

In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop ...