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.

Guwahati: In a decisive move to address the escalating human-elephant conflict, the state govt has launched the Gaja Mitra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...