1/12 BEN THE ELEPHANT ARRIVES LOOKING FOR HELP

Bumi Hills Foundation 4 12 Ben's gunshot wound The elephant had a septic wound which was 4cm in diameter and 10cm deep... READ MORE›

CAN ELEPHANT TROPHY HUNTING REALLY HELP SPECIES SURVIVAL?

Elephant trophies Can trophy hunting really help species survival?... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP PUTS ON HOLD PLANS TO ALLOW ELEPHANT TROPHY IMPORTS A

The rule released on Friday allowing hunters who kill elephants in Zimbabwe to bring their trophies back to the United States outraged animal activists... READ MORE›

TRUMP DELAYS NEW POLICY ON IMPORTING ELEPHANT PARTS

As a result, the number of African elephants has shrunk from about 5 million a century ago to about 400,000... READ MORE›

TRUMP PUTS ELEPHANT TROPHY IMPORTS ON HOLD

President Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration... READ MORE›

TRUMP DELAYS NEW POLICY ON IMPORTING ELEPHANT PARTS

As a result, the number of African elephants has shrunk from about 5 million a century ago to about 400,000 remaining... READ MORE›

ANIMAL ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY TRUMP LIFTING BIG GAME TROPHY BAN

According to the Great Elephant Census project, the African elephant population has declined 6 percent in Zimbabwe in recent years... READ MORE›

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVERSES OBAMA-ERA BAN ON BRINGING TROPHIES FROM ELEPHANT HUNTS TO U.S.

How to treat animal trophies Americans shoot overseas has been a contentious issue for years... READ MORE›

ELEPHANT TROPHIES: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LIFTS BAN ON HUNTERS' PRIZES

The Trump administration is reversing an Obama-era ban on hunters importing trophies of elephants killed in Zambia and Zimbabwe during government-approved big-game expeditions... READ MORE›

ELEPHANTS HIDE BY DAY, FORAGE AT NIGHT TO EVADE POACHERS

The escalation of poaching has become the greatest immediate threat to the survival of elephants, Ihwagi said... READ MORE›

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CHINA IS LOSING ITS TASTE FOR IVORY

Good news for Africa's elephants China is losing its taste for ivory... READ MORE›

BIGGEST ELEPHANT KILLED IN AFRICA FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF CECIL THE LION

Individual elephants such as these should be accorded their true value as a National Heritage and should be off limits to hunting... READ MORE›

ZIMBABWE ELEPHANT HUNTER IDENTIFIED AS GERMAN PROPERTY MOGUL

It was claimed that Mr Schorr was accompanied by a local, experienced professional hunter esteemed by the hunting community for finding his clients large elephants... READ MORE›

'IF WE STOPPED POACHING TOMORROW, ELEPHANTS WOULD STILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE'

Every year, around 100 people and 40 to 50 elephants are killed as a result in India, for example... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S LAST AFRICAN ELEPHANT DIES AT DUBBO ZOO

Australia's last African elephant dies in the Taronga Western Plains Zoo, after arriving 40 years ago... READ MORE›

MAN MAY HAVE PAID $55K TO KILL AFRICA'S MOST FAMOUS LION

A Game of Thrones editor, recently killed by a lioness in South Africa, was raising money to combat poaching... READ MORE›

GERMANY MAY BLOCK IMPORT OF TUSKS FROM GIANT ELEPHANT SHOT BY HUNTER IN ZIMBABWE

Import of trophy tusks from one of africa's largest elephants could be illegal warns germany as reward offered for hunter's identity... READ MORE›

GERMAN HUNTER PAYS $60K, KILLS BIGGEST ELEPHANT SEEN IN DECADES IN ZIMBABWE

A disturbing number of elephants have been killed in Zimbabwe in recent weeks, including the biggest one seen in decades... READ MORE›

ELEPHANTS ARE THE END OF A 60M-YEAR LINEAGE - LAST OF THE MEGAHERBIVORES

The 20,000-year-old pygmy elephants of the Mediterranean islands may appear as fantastical as the woolly mammoths which still ambled across one Alaskan island just 5,600 years ago... READ MORE›

AFRICAN ELEPHANTS 'KILLED FASTER THAN THEY ARE BEING BORN'

More African elephants are being killed for ivory than are being born, despite poaching levels falling for the fourth year in a row in 2015... READ MORE›

EVGENY LEBEDEV RETURNS TO AFRICA TO FIND OUT HOW THE BATTLE AGAINST THE POACHERS IS BEING FOUGHT AND WON

The President has already dispatched wildlife rangers to the Central African Republic to protect that country's elephants from warlord bands... READ MORE›

AFTER CECIL THE LION, ZIMBABWEANS WORRY ABOUT LOSING ELEPHANTS TO CHINA

After cecil the lion zimbabweans worry about losing elephants to china... READ MORE›

GROUP SAYS BRITISH PILOT KILLED BY POACHERS IN TANZANIA

A British helicopter pilot was shot and killed while trying to stop elephant poachers in Tanzania, a conservation group said... READ MORE›

ELEPHANT MEAT ON MENU AT MUGABE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Elephant meat on menu at Mugabe's birthday party JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Robert Mugabe's birthday is a big deal in Zimbabwe... READ MORE›

With poaching at such high levels, the conference will be a critical game-changer in rescuing what is left of the savannah elephants... READ MORE›

'CAN YOU IMAGINE THEM NO LONGER EXISTING?'

Central African Republic has lost almost all its savannah elephants... READ MORE›

GENOME STUDY REVEALS HOW THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH THRIVED IN THE COLD

Woolly mammoths, a bit larger than modern elephants, dwelled in the steppes of northern Asia, Europe and North America... READ MORE›

LION KILLS WALKING SAFARI GUIDE IN SAME ZIMBABWE PARK THAT WAS HOME TO CECIL

Quinn Swales was leading a walking safari in Hwange National Park when he spotted six lions on Monday police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said Tuesday... READ MORE›

I SHOT THE ELEPHANT AND ATE IT TOO

Mr Buckingham is rehashing an old story about a hunting trip that took place before Mr Borsak was elected to the NSW Legislative Council, he said... READ MORE›

MALAWI PACKS OFF 500 PACHYDERMS IN MASSIVE RELOCATION FROM HUMAN ENCROACHMENT

African Parks hopes elephants in Malawi can eventually serve as a reservoir to restore other African elephant populations... READ MORE›

ILLEGAL POACHING, LOGGING AND MINING WORTH UP TO $258 BILLION

Environmental crime is growing at an alarming pace, Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock said in a statement... READ MORE›