The study did not track a continent-wide population tally because the various surveys employed different methodologies over ...

In late August 2024, Namibia announced plans to slaughter 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants—a number later raised to a staggering 1,002 ...

and elephants have vanished from some sites. However, other populations are showing rapid growth. "We have seen real success ...

African elephants are Earth’s largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also ...

Zimbabwe has decided to cull 200 elephants following an earlier declaration of a national state of disaster caused by the drought. Photo: Marianne Botha/Farmer's Weekly Zimbabwe recently confirmed ...

They have also claimed that they have more than enough elephants (in Zimbabwe’s statement it’s "too many elephants”) and that the cull will alleviate ongoing human-elephant conflict situations.

Steve Boyes has been studying elephants with National Geographic for decades. In his latest expedition, he came across the ...

The mighty tusker, killed by a professional hunter, was one of 200 wild elephants culled in the past month on Zimbabwe government orders to feed people facing a life-or-death battle for food and ...

Almost all the elephants, perhaps as many as 100,000, were either killed or driven out to become refugees in northern Botswana and Namibia, or western Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2016, the National ...

Group G: Cote d’Ivoire (9), Zambia (7), Sierra Leone (4), Chad (2) The Elephants stand strong in Group G with three ... Group ...