Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

An African elephant’s tusks are among the animal’s most distinctive features. But unlike its curling trunk and huge ears, its ivory incisors also make it a target. Ivory tusks are a lucrative business ...

JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...

Elephants possess remarkable long-term memory, recalling individuals, routes, and even emotions for decades. This vital trait ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the continent, ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans ...

Near the Mahiyanganaya Indigenous Village, one person was preparing to sell what HIRU News described as the "largest single ...

Seized illicit shipments of elephant ivory are almost entirely made up of tusks from recently poached animals rather than siphoned from government stockpiles, scientists using a forensic technique ...