Massive quantities of African ivory are being laundered through shops in Thailand and fuelling the elephant poaching crisis, conservation group WWF says. The organization today is launching a global ...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a ...

There is more illegal ivory than elephants in three key ivory trading countries in West Africa, according to a new report launched today by TRAFFIC and WWF. Gland, Switzerland - There is more illegal ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations ...

State Tourism, Culture and Environ­ment Minister Chris­tina Liew said ivory poaching could be the motive, but this could not be confirmed at present. She was responding to two cases of pygmy elephants ...

A 2 ton haul of ivory trinkets, statues and jewellery crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants has been destroyed in a rock crusher. The event, in New York’s Central Park, was held ...

Perhaps now profiteering will be seen as less respectable - and more people will enjoy seeing the glorious creatures in the wild Every 15 minutes or so an elephant is slaughtered by poachers to meet ...

This is a great week for elephants. After years of campaigning from International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW) and other conservation organisations, a UK ban on the sale of ivory has now been passed ...