The research, "PoachNet: Predicting Poaching Using an Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph," was published in Sensors. PoachNet has ...

The analysis also revealed that, on a continent-wide scale, elephant poaching began picking up in 2008 and peaked in 2011, with around 40,000 animals killed that year alone. Elephant poaching is ...

AP New findings suggest that, as a result of widespread poaching, elephants have evolved to not have tusks. In a study published Friday in the journal Science, researchers explain how the market ...

And it has rejuvenated the poaching economy in Africa. The price on an elephant's head, Craig said, is about $2,000, or $2,500 to the gunman "So it's several years' worth of wages from that ...

Then, because of poaching, those numbers dropped. Drastically. Africa lost more than 100,000 elephants between 2006 and 2015, the worst poaching surge since the 1980s, according to the ...

Scientist are looking to see if poaching has altered the genetics of the herd. Rome, Italy -- The elephant herds in Gorongosa National Park, in central Mozambique, are survivors. Despite massive ...

Elephant poaching is likely driven by need, not greed, according to findings published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Fewer elephants were poached where humans were healthier ...

This intense poaching slashed the elephant population of Gorongosa National Park by 90 percent. It also had another unintended impact on the animals, scientists reported this week. Female ...

The economic boom there has pushed ivory prices through the roof -- and rejuvenated the poaching economy in Africa. The price on an elephant's head, Craig said, is about $2,000, or $2,500 to the ...