DAKAR (Reuters) - The central African state of Gabon, home to half of Africa's endangered forest elephants, has impounded more than 200 kg (440 lb) of ivory in what may be its largest seizure ever.

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 ...

Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species. Derived from animal tusks and teeth, it's denser and smoother than bone, ...

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 ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has seized ivory tusks equivalent to killing at least 117 elephants, its tourism minister said, part of its drive to stamp out organized criminal networks involved ...

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 ...

Each rainy season in southern Ivory Coast, farmers in the town of Grihiri watch in frustration as herds of elephants migrating south from the Dassioko forest in search of fresh water and food cut ...

Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, spent most of his career researching lizards. But at 3:00 a.m. one morning in 2016, he was browsing YouTube and came across a ...

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 ...