2 of 7 — Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when ...

Hunters find the ancient tusks clustered on sandbars near the Arctic Ocean, carried there by spring melt waters flowing from the Siberian tundra. A pair of them, dried, polished and elegantly mounted ...

In a recent study, Dr. Harel Shochat from the University of Haifa and his colleagues analyzed the biological and geographical ...

Around 2010, African elephants faced an unprecedented survival crisis. Studies show that in 2011 and 2012, about 22,000 and ...

They were called the ivory wars. In the 1980s, at least 700,000 elephants, and possibly as many as 1 million, were slaughtered throughout Africa, killed by hunters and poachers for their ivory tusks, ...

When something dies, a telltale radioactive signal ticks like a natural clock. Discovering it helped us solve all sorts of ...

The International Fund for Animal Welfare released a report today saying that eBay is continuing to allow consumers to bid on elephant ivory in violation of eBay’s own policies. EBay auctions are ...

In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast ...

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 ...