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"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," Simone Ruf, an employee at the South Luangwa National Park, said Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

Humans have been over-exploiting African elephants for centuries. More than 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire’s demand for ivory led to the extinction of genetically distinct elephant populations in ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate ...

An ambitious plan by a conservation NGO calls for linking up elephant habitats throughout East and Southern Africa by establishing wildlife corridors. But the “Room to Roam” plan, still at the ...

LONDON -- When Nikita Dhawan first saw Shankar at the zoo in India's capital last August, she said her "heart broke." The 26-year-old African elephant had chains around his legs and was living alone ...

The real crisis in southern Africa is not an elephant overpopulation crisis. It’s a human land use, inequality and governance ...

The 218-pound newborn, named Corra, is also the first second-generation calf to be born at the Orlando theme park Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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 ...

It seems bizarre to be talking about killing or curbing the growth rate of Africa’s elephants, considering that they were listed as “endangered” barely a decade ago following a dramatic 60% population ...

A tourist was killed by an elephant on Saturday in South Africa's famous Kruger Park, the South African national parks agency SAN Parks announced overnight. "A tragic accident occurred when a tourist ...