In the continental war to protect Africa's elephants, the rangers of Garamba National Park in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are manning the frontline.

But four southern African nations —South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana—still contain threatened, but relatively healthy elephant populations, and they are listed in Appendix 2, which ...

Africa's elephant population suffered its biggest decline in 25 years, as more poachers kill the mammals for their valuable ivory tusks, a new conservation study reveals. Elephant populations ...

A decorated war veteran with two decades' experience in military intelligence, Lt. Col. Faye Cuevas spent half her career providing intelligence support to U.S. counter-insurgencies in Iraq ...

EXCLUSIVE: A British vet and a dedicated team of rangers and pilots tagged these elephants for the first time in a bid to ...

In Africa, Tracker Dogs Join War Against Elephant Poachers. It's all hands (and paws) on deck when it comes to the poaching crisis in Africa.

Most of these elephants had to be imported from friendly Indian kingdoms, although the Ptolemies of Egypt eventually secured African elephants from beyond the southern borders of their kingdom ...

War Elephants: Psychological Warfare and Combat Strategies in Ancient Times. Story by Drew Wood • 1w. ... As today, ancient ...

Armies on both sides hunted African elephants for their tusks, selling the ivory to finance war efforts over 15 years. By 1992, the elephant population in Gorongosa had declined by more than 90%.

In just three years, the number of elephants in Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve fell from 40,000 to 13,000. According to a comprehensive new scientific study, poachers throughout Africa killed an ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — The markets in the Central African Republic offer all of the jungle’s delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant. Hunters kill ...

Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching ...