(John Stillwell/POOL/AFP) Scottish conservationist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who pioneered new understandings of African elephants and made protecting the giant pachyderms a life-long passion, has died ...

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Footage shows elephant using her bulk (and trunk) to guide calf to the riverbank.

Craig, one of Africa’s last super tuskers, has died peacefully in Amboseli, leaving behind towering tusks, decades of research, and an enduring symbol of hope for elephant conservation.

Peulh herdspeople, in an encampment above, tolerate the animals. Carlton Ward, Jr. The region is barely habitable for elephants (wallowing in the last mud of a water hole that dried up two days later.

Nir Kalron was once an Israeli commando, then private security consultant to African leaders, and a dealer of legal arms. Today he's working with... Former Commando Turns Conservationist To Save ...

A new study has revealed that African Elephants have an extraordinary ability to meet their colossal food requirements as efficiently as possible. Data from over 150 elephants demonstrated that these ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...