(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

C'sar the elephant, the N.C. Zoo's longest-tenured and one of its most charismatic residents, has died. The park announced ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service released a final rule that provides important additional Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled African elephants. However, the agency failed to prohibit the ...

An elephant not seen for several years was captured on camera walking through a national park in Senegal The "Ghost Elephant," named Ousmane, was considered to be one of five to 10 elephants left at ...

“Elephants are the gardeners of the forest,” Blake wrote, explaining that when elephants eat the fruit from high carbon ...

C’sar, the North Carolina Zoo’s longest-tenured resident and the oldest African bull elephant in the United States, died Dec.

Africa is the last stand for wildlife. That is how Peter and Corie Knights describe the continent they have devoted their ...

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. Africa’s elephant population has ...