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 ...

"Must be rigorously questioned." Officials spark backlash with shocking rule change on elephant hunting: 'We are alarmed' ...

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 ...

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.

Zimbabwe's safari industry is projecting a 25 percent increase in hunting revenue this year, with earnings expected to reach US$50 million -- up from US$40 million in the previous year. This growth is ...

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 ...

The sharp reduction of their population has a knock-on effect on the Congo Basin forest itself. This is because African ...

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 ...