JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...

In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise. The news had international ...

For years, Belgian anti-poaching pilot Anthony Caere flew over Virunga's forests and saw nothing but rebels below. No animals. Just armed insurgents in one of ...

An anti-trafficking raid resulted in the seizure of two large elephant tusks, per Ommcom News. Both tusks were over 2 feet long and "believed to be the result of the killing of at least one elephant," ...

Elephants in Borneo's rainforest aren't just being poached—they're being decapitated. As the New York Times reports, Malaysian wildlife officials say at least 13 endangered Bornean elephants have been ...

In the spring of 2013, poachers looking for elephant ivory took advantage of the chaos of a civil war raging in the Central African Republic, and massacred 26 rare forest elephants at a special place ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...

The Congolese Supreme Court has ordered Ghislain Ngondjo (known as Pepito) to five years in prison for slaughtering dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks. The five year sentence is the maximum in ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Central African Republic, a clearing called Dzanga Bai pulls hundreds of forest elephants out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illegal animal parts including those that belonged to protected species were confiscated this month in Fresno and Madera counties, ...