Previous approaches to preventing elephant poaching have focused on specific aspects, ... PoachNet: Predicting Poaching Using ...

From a high of 1.3 million African elephants in the late 1970s, poaching reduced populations to critical levels by 1980. The numbers are plummeting again: there are only about 500,000 elephants left.

Science Shows That Elephant Poaching Is Unsustainable For the first time, scientists have made a comprehensive tally of illegal killing rates across Africa. Rachel Nuwer. August 18, 2014.

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 for ...

Africa lost more than 100,000 elephants between 2006 and 2015, the worst poaching surge since the 1980s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Now there’s a bit of ...

Rome, Italy -- The elephant herds in Gorongosa National Park, in central Mozambique, are survivors. Despite massive poaching operations that decimated more than 90 percent of the elephant ...

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.

Blood & ivory: Elephant poaching in Kenya 25 photos. Each night, rangers go up to an observation point at higher ground, then sit all night long and scour these valleys, ...