JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants and painstakingly looked for matches in the vast African continent have identified two large areas where the ...

Welsh non-profit Dogs4Wildlife trains dogs to support anti-poaching units in their efforts to protect endangered wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

The carcasses analyzed were found with tusks intact and showed no signs of injuries, poisoning, or contamination.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A high rate of elephant poaching in parts of Africa was unchanged in 2014 compared to the previous year, meaning that a continued decline in elephant numbers is likely, according ...

No sign of an elephant in all of two minutes, a tourist teased a guide at Botswana's Chobe National Park, home to tens of thousands of elephants. A minute later, their vehicle cleared a knot of shrubs ...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa — Crack! Crack! The familiar sound pierces the bush as elephants bring down another acacia tree in Kruger National Park. Recently, the sound easily could be mistaken ...

Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been using artificial intelligence technology to track African forest elephants to safeguard them from poachers and other threats. The ELP tracks ...

Africa is in the middle of what Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times calls an epic elephant slaughter. He says poachers are killing more... Elephant Poaching In Africa Is On The Rise STEVE INSKEEP, ...

African wildlife has always fascinated writers, giving them a chance to explore the continent's rich biodiversity and ...