African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service's trophy approvals last year were a big leap from President Donald Trump’s first term, when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

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

Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, ...

The African elephant population was traditionally reliant upon the ability to move around large areas in order to preserve high numbers of healthy individuals and genetic diversity. Over countless ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

According to a new study published on Monday, June 10, African elephants refer to one another with "individually specific calls" Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

Hundreds of elephants died in a short time frame. Between August and November 2020, 35 African elephants in northwestern Zimbabwe dropped dead seemingly out of nowhere. Eleven of those animals died ...