Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades ...

Environmentalists have urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision to cut off funding for key conservation work ...

The report shows that African elephant populations have fallen from an estimated 12 million a century ago, to 400,000. It adds that the decline is of concern because even in well-established and ...

Analysis - Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

I encourage many more South African shoppers to join us.” Rhino killings in the Kruger National Park have marginally declined over the past two years, but poaching has unfortunately increased in other ...

Present-day elephants are the biggest land animals. The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) weighs over 10 tons and is up to 13 feet tall. Their Asian relatives, Elephas maximus, rank next on ...

Elephants are very large, powerful creatures that roam Africa and parts of Asia in modern times. Their ancestors were once far more widespread, and humans have found evidence of these creatures in ...

“The Trump administration’s funding freeze for anti-poaching patrols and other international conservation work is ... It’s careless, callous, and a violation of the laws that protect us all.” African ...