Wildlife officials are investigating the possible involvement of ivory poachers in the recent decapitation of elephants in ...

The practice of giving tusks as dowry in neighbouring Indonesia may be behind the killings, conservationists say.

Veerappan, who held sway over the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, was notorious for poaching elephants for ivory. While ...

Sabah has launched the Captive Elephant Management Plan (CEMP) to safeguard one of its most iconic and majestic species, the ...

“Central African countries, through their joint forest commission COMIFAC, have agreed in principle to an action plan to combat wildlife crime – including elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade – ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

and poaching threaten Bornean elephants. Despite global anti-poaching efforts, the illegal ivory trade continues to drive ...

Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years. From the air too the scattered bodies present a senseless ...

Years ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen backed a project called the Great Elephant Census that highlighted a crisis for Africa’s elephant population, brought about primarily by illegal poaching.

Within Gabon's Minkébé National Park, poachers likely killed about 25,000 forest elephants for their ivory tusks between 2004 and 2014, according to a Duke University-led study in the journal ...