From overcrowding to impacting local communities negatively, holidaymakers need to be wary about what they book, Lauren Taylor reports.

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ASHEBORO, N.C. (WECT) — C’sar, the North Carolina Zoo’s longest-tenured resident and the oldest African bull elephant in the United States, died Dec. 19 at 51 years old. The elephant died peacefully ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

The secretive African forest elephant is coming out of the shadows. The latest IUCN assessment of the species, which lives in dense rainforest, concludes there are over 135,000 of them, 16 per cent ...

TULSA, Okla. — An announcement from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation meant to provide clarity, instead sparked controversy. "Everybody needs a hunting and fishing license. Period." ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) says tribal members must purchase state hunting and fishing licenses and cannot use their tribal IDs for those activities, even if they are ...

A new dispute is unfolding in Oklahoma over tribal hunting and fishing rights as the state and Native nations weigh conflicting interpretations of law and sovereignty. The Oklahoma Department of ...

A local government in South Africa has said that its elephant population has become too large, but its plan to reduce numbers has drawn sharp criticism. Mongabay reports that the North West Parks and ...

Kingdom of Kubuala 'African tribe' defiant in face of eviction from Scots forest. A sheriff has issued a warrant for the removal of a self-styled "African tribe" from privately-owned land in the ...