A study published this August in the journal Science Advances may be the first to provide hard evidence of the mutualistic relationship between African forest elephants and African ebony, a dense and ...

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are pushing back against a local government plan to allow culling and trophy hunting to reduce elephant numbers in Madikwe Game Reserve.   According to the North ...

NAIROBI — Tanzanian authorities are keen on issuing more hunting permits despite mounting international pressure for the country to ban elephant trophy hunting in the areas surrounding its border with ...

Rural farming communities on the border between the southern African countries of Malawi and Zambia are seeking damages and threatening to sue an international animal conservation group over the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Botswana has lifted its ban on elephant hunting in a country with the world’s highest number of the animals, a decision that has brought anger from some wildlife protection groups ...

In a blistering parliamentary session last week (18 September), members of the Portfolio Committee on Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment accused North West officials of gross mismanagement, ...

With tusks that each weigh over 100 pounds and often scrape the ground, Africa’s last remaining “super tuskers” take center stage in a book by Italian-born photographer Federico Veronesi.

Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University have uncovered the mystery surrounding extensive Paleolithic stone quarrying and tool-making sites: Why did Homo erectus repeatedly revisit the very same ...

Legend has it that the critters in Africa are harder to kill than those in North America. If you’re talking about buffalo, hippo, and elephant, that’s partly true because there’s simply nothing in ...

Madagascar was once home to the elephant bird, the largest bird species ever known, standing over three metres tall and ...