A new study reveals alarming declines in African elephant populations, with savanna elephants down 70% and forest elephants ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The savanna elephant populations fell by about 70% on average at the surveyed sites and the forest elephant populations ...