By Natasha Booty and Richard Kagoe - BBC A Kenyan elephant believed to have been one of Africa's largest male tuskers has died of old age. The pachyderm, fondly known as Craig, died of natural causes on Saturday morning at Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya,...
By Cyril Zenda - Down to Earth Since lifting the ban on trophy hunting in 2019, Botswana has been progressively increasing the numbers of animals on offer to sport hunters. Wildlife conservationists are alarmed by the sharp increase in elephants and other wildlife...
By Maureen Kinyanjui - The Eastleigh Voice President William Ruto on Thursday released the 2025 National Wildlife Census Report, describing the findings as a “mosaic of wins and urgent conservation emergencies.” The census, conducted between June 2024 and August 2025,...
By Usaid Siddiqui - Al Jazeera Conservationists have raised the alarm about the Botswana government’s decision to increase its annual trophy-hunting quota for elephants, reigniting a debate over how the country should manage the world’s largest elephant population....
By Ryan Truscott - Mongabay Elephant populations in Southern Africa are stable or growing, but the space available for them is not. Often, elephant populations are constrained, increasing their impact on the environment or surrounding communities, and triggering calls...
By The Whistler The Okomu National Park in Edo, on Monday, stated that a baby elephant, rescued from an oil palm plantation on November 30, is undergoing rehabilitation. Conservator of the park, Mr Osaze Lawrence, disclosed this at the park in Ovia South West Local...
By Rhett Ayers Butler - Mongabay ain Douglas-Hamilton was a pioneering elephant researcher who spent nearly 60 years studying Africa’s elephants, beginning in Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park with the first scientific study of elephant behavior in the wild. A...
By Andrei Ionescu - Earth.com Drones used to be the noisy interlopers that sent elephants hustling away from fields. Conservation teams even leaned on that reaction to steer herds off croplands. However, a new study from Save the Elephants (STE) and the University of...
By Andrew Zinin - Phys.org DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study showed Thursday. The new status report shows...
By Sunday Tribune Reporter A JOINT effort by Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (Ezemvelo), Humane World for Animals, and the Loziba Wildlife Reserve has resulted in securing one of the country’s smallest and most isolated free-roaming elephant populations. The move...