Tusks are one of the most notable features of elephants, among their size and trunks. However, some elephants do not have tusks, and a high proportion of these elephants are females. Why do some ...

Elephants are one of the iconic animals that people travel thousands of miles to see. But have you ever wondered if elephants are endangered? Well, unfortunately, these huge animals — the ...

Alia Bhatt is the executive producer of 'Poacher,' a new series streaming on Amazon that sheds light on India's elephant poaching industry.

Here's what to know about elephants to protect their populations. How many elephants are left in the world? According to the WWF, there are approximately 415,000 African elephants left in the world.

What drives elephant poaching? It’s not greed Fewer elephants were poached in areas where communities were healthier and wealthier, a study on thousands of killings in 30 African countries found.

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%.

Researchers at the University of Washington are using genetic clues from elephant tusks to expose poaching networks that drive the slaughter of more than 10,000 African elephants each year.

Mozambique’s 15-year civil war changed the face of its national parks, which underwent rampant poaching of big mammals, including elephants. It did much more. It changed the face of female ...

Observers in areas with heavy poaching had previously noticed an increased incidence of African elephants without their iconic tusks. But until now there has been no direct genetic evidence indicating ...

Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Female elephants without any tusks became much more common after intense poaching slashed the elephant population in Mozambique.

Ivory poaching has led to a “rapid evolution” of tusk-less elephants, a study published in Science on Thursday stated. The study focused on African elephants in Gorongosa National Park in ...