Wildlife rangers discussing the results of our elephant poaching models at a ranger station in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Timothy Kuiper and used with permission of the rangers.

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 ...

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 ...

The Niassa Reserve spans over 16,000 square miles -- which is larger than Switzerland -- in a remote part of northern Mozambique. The park suffered "nearly catastrophic elephant poaching" in ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Elephant poaching is alive and well. Scientists examining seized shipments of ivory from Africa have found that 90% came from elephants that died within the last three years. News.

That is particularly true of data on poaching, which remains, in both senses of the word, an elephantine problem. Since 2006 African elephant populations have declined by around 30%.