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 ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...

Tusks are one of the most notable features of elephants, among their size and trunks. However, some elephants do not have tusks, and a high proportion of these elephants are females. Why do some ...

In southern Africa, a dead elephant with its face hacked away reveals the brutal reality of the ivory trade. What begins as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...