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 ...

A Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia’s Central Aceh district in late February was the latest case of electrocution to kill one of Indonesia’s remaining critically endangered elephants, ...

Chhattisgarh recorded the deaths of 38 elephants and nine tigers over 26 months due to poaching, electrocution, and more. Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap revealed other animal casualties totaling 562, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Customs authorities in Dubai have seized ivory worth as much as 15 million dirhams ($4.1 million) from more than 100 poached elephants. The UAE's state news agency WAM ...

An anti-trafficking raid resulted in the seizure of two large elephant tusks, per Ommcom News. Both tusks were over 2 feet long and "believed to be the result of the killing of at least one elephant," ...

As debates continue over elephant numbers, specifically whether Africa’s elephants are overpopulated in some regions or nearing collapse in others, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) is ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...

BHUBANESWAR: Forest, Environment and Climate Change minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia on Tuesday informed the Assembly that ...

In the spring of 2013, poachers looking for elephant ivory took advantage of the chaos of a civil war raging in the Central African Republic, and massacred 26 rare forest elephants at a special place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illegal animal parts including those that belonged to protected species were confiscated this month in Fresno and Madera counties, ...