More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

We’re just a stone’s throw from the vehicle when we see the first bootprints in the sand. They’re a few days old and cross a dirt road that runs along the backside of a large waterhole. The eight of ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants and painstakingly looked for matches in the vast African continent have identified two large areas where the ...

A South African court in January sentenced four poachers to several years in prison for two separate crimes committed in ...

DINOKENG GAME RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the security operation that keeps them ...

Fresh warthog carcass in tow, a poacher speeds away from Zimbabwe’s Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy. Blood spatters, footprints and tire marks are the only traces of the crime he has just ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic ...

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs ...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa — Crack! Crack! The familiar sound pierces the bush as elephants bring down another acacia tree in Kruger National Park. Recently, the sound easily could be mistaken ...

KINSHASA/KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, April 24 (Reuters) - T he hit job was done by professionals who swooped over their quarry in a helicopter before opening fire. The scene beneath the rotor ...

JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...