A poacher sneaking up on rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death. Two men with high-powered rifles and an axe broke into Kruger National Park in South Africa looking for a £10 ...

He was hoping to bag a rhino horn worth £10,000.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

In parts of Tanzania, small farms are increasingly coming into contact with African elephants, leading to a hard conflict ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the clock was ticking before predators or exhaustion could take over.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - At the Kansas Zoo and Aquarium, Zuri, a 14-year-old African Elephant, is recovering after falling ill with a strain of the life-threatening elephant endotheliotropic ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, officials say. The incident Sunday involving 59-year-old Shaik Adam Shabir Ammed ...

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. Released at the world’s largest ...