In the floodplains of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, scientists are seeing something both remarkable and heartbreaking. Elephants ...

Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

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Known to pachydermologists as an "alert circle," the female adults quickly encircled their young back-to-back, tusks and trunks outward.

Botswana, home to the largest population of elephants in the world, presents a fascinating yet troubling case where conservation success comes with significant human-wildlife conflict. As elephant ...

They have sometimes been criticized for that, and the issue was best vocalized last year when then-Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in response ...

A video shot of their enclosure at the park Monday morning shows the five African elephants standing around in the morning sun before the camera shakes and they run in different directions.

Some African countries cull elephants to control their numbers or allow them to be hunted to raise money. They have sometimes been criticized for that, and the issue was best vocalized last year when ...