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 ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving ...

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, Rhinos & People fundraising challenge seeks to aid vital anti-poaching patrols protecting endangered animals in ...

Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting elephants, has died, his ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...

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

British zoologist and founder of the Save the Elephants group, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who was a "giant in the field of ...