When the ground started shaking, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed a protective barrier, known as an "alert circle," around their youngest. Experts say it's a ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

Dodoma, Tanzania: One of Tanzania’s most notorious ivory traffickers ... poaching gangs in 5 countries and directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of elephants over the past years. When he ...

According to Tanzanian policy, their government usually issues about 100 permits for hunting elephants yearly. “I don't know what happened last year, Tanzania issued permits to hunt elephants on ...

The census lined up with Wasser’s findings: Between 2009 and 2016 the number of elephants in Tanzania fell by more than half, from 109,051 to 42,871. “I kept expecting it to change,” Wasser ...

The proposal drew a storm of criticism, with vocal protests from conservation and animal welfare advocates both inside Tanzania and abroad. Tanzanian government officers had acknowledged that the ...

“Tanzania’s elephants have long been an easy target for poachers and traffickers, but this arrest shows that the days when ivory kingpins were untouchable are coming to an end,” said Amani Ngusaru, ...