More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory ...

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 ...