The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is working with an organization in Africa on conservation efforts and, in the process, is ...

Explore Africa’s UNESCO parks where wildlife meets ancient culture—from the Serengeti’s migration to San rock art in the ...

A Spanish tourist died after being trampled by an elephant at Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa on July 7, per Newzroom Afrika, NBC News and The Guardian.

FC Conradie, the 39-year-old co-owner of the luxury Gondwana private game reserve in Mossel Bay on the Western Cape, suffered fatal injuries after an elephant charged him on Tuesday, July 22, local ...

Next up was the last captive elephant in South Africa. Charley, an aging 4-ton African elephant, had outlived his fellow elephants at a zoo in the capital, Pretoria, where he’d stayed for more ...

The community of elephants that call Africa's Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) home once thrived there. During multiple surveys of in the 1960s and 1970s, scientists found that specific locations ...

Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton attended Gordonstoun School.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

In celebration of World Elephant Day on Tuesday 12th August 2025, the striking Herd of Hope bronze elephant sculptures will ...

Adding in those elephants killed by people in Africa lowered the median life span there to 35.9 years. Median means half died younger than that age and half lived longer.

African elephant populations have decreased by at least 60% over 50 years. In the face of steep population decline, the United States has moved to restrict the import of live African elephants and ...