As elephants consume sparse vegetation faster than it can naturally generate, the imbalance in resources affects other mammal and bird species in the government parks of Swaziland, which is ...

1 fewer elephant than expected coming from Swaziland to U.S.; Omaha still will welcome 6 In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium and its partners in ...

SAN DIEGO - One of seven African elephants brought to the Wild Animal Park from Swaziland last year gave birth Monday to a 250-pound male calf, the first birth of an African elephant here in two ...

Three U.S. zoos, with the cooperation of Swaziland’s Big Game Parks and with the approval of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, took these two elephants, along with 15 other African elephants ...

In Swaziland, BGP CEO Ted Reilly is listed as both Scientific and Management Authority, so, in effect, BGP will be applying to, and giving itself permission to, export the elephants.

Some conservationists are opposing the planned relocation of 18 elephants from Swaziland to zoos in the US. But a US official says the animal transfer can be done humanely and is permissible under ...

There were also 121 elephant deaths the same year. There were 17 elephant deaths due to train accidents in 2023-24; 94 due to electrocution; 9 due to poaching and 1 due to poisoning. Of the human ...