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 ...

Guest Column - When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

(CNN) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. ”Twenty thousand elephants for Germany, this is ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — 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 ...

If you only read the headlines, you’d think southern Africa is groaning under a booming elephant problem with no silver bullet in sight. Tony Carnie’s detailed article from the recent “Elephant in the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - If Spain's king had shot an elephant in Botswana during his ill-fated hunting excursion it would have been one of perhaps 150,000 that roam the vast southern African country, ...