Inspired, his father trained 12 elephants for anti-poaching patrols in Zimbabwe but in 2002 the family lost their three farms to President Robert Mugabe's land seizures and came to South Africa.

Trained elephants are now able to assist firefighter crews to put out forest fires, and prevent them from igniting. In the elephant conservation centre of Siak district, as many as 23 elephants ...

A sign alerts train operators to the presence of wild elephants, near the site where a passenger train hit a herd and killed six elephants in Minneriya, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20, 2025.

The officers pointed out that loss of habitat is the main reason that drives elephants to roam into villages and cultivated ...

In flood-prone areas of Chiang Mai, Thailand, elephants are being trained as rescuers. Footage from late May captured the training, which aims to prepare the elephants to save lives and assist ...

The training program, scheduled for Oct. 10-15, is sponsored by MIKE (Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants), an international environmental protection system that protects elephants from ...