For years, Laure Mekamne was besieged by forest elephants. She banged on steel barrels to drive them away. She lit fires. She moved her vegetable crops to a more easily guarded plot behind her village ...

Over the past three weeks, 10 Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in the Gunung Raya Forest Reserve, in the Malaysian state of Sabah, and officials believe that they may be a victim of ...

Battle for the Elephants explores the creatures hunted for their ivory.PETR JOSEK Once upon a time, and not so long ago either, a million elephants roamed Earth. Last year, 25,000 elephants were ...

Herds of woolly mammoth once roamed the span of the Northern Hemisphere, from the British Isles across the Bering land bridge to the eastern shores of North America. Then, about 4000 years ago, the ...

The San Diego Zoo recently caught one of its endangered elephants dancing – and singing – in the rain. The Wildlife Care Specialists team knew two of the African elephants in the zoo's Elephant ...

A NUMBER of critically endangered species were among the 41 animals that died at Dublin Zoo during 2024, we can reveal. That ...

JOHANNESBURG - Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by ...

An endangered elephant in Kenya has given birth to twins, in a rare event announced by conservation group Save the Elephants. The group says an event like this accounts for only 1 per cent of all ...

A group of students in British Columbia has created a hi-tech system that is providing park rangers with a new tool to save threatened African elephants. PhD candidate Jake Wall and his colleagues at ...

As cities expand and forests shrink, wildlife corridors are becoming vital escape routes, quietly helping endangered animals reclaim their paths to survival. Here are five to explore.

JOHANNESBURG – It’s been a disastrous year for elephants, perhaps the worst since ivory sales were banned in 1989 to save the world’s largest land animals from extinction, the wildlife trade ...