The US authorities announced a near-total ban on the trade of African elephant ivory on Thursday, finalizing a years-long push to protect the endangered animals. Conservation groups welcomed the move, ...

Kenya, long at the forefront of efforts to shut the ivory trade down completely, last week torched thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns. Proposals for the meeting in Johannesburg were made ...

Vancouver, British Columbia—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) joined 95 Canadian and international conservationists, scientists, politicians and animal welfare organizations in a letter sent to the ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, ...

Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo were arrested outside of Seattle last week on charges that they shipped ivory and white rhinoceros horn to the United States and had plans to send more, ...

These gentle giants are not only powerful in size but also remarkable in mind. African elephants are highly intelligent, emotional, and social animals. They live in close family groups, care deeply ...