The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries. There are thousands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elephant matriarch leads her group across a river at Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Nick Nichols, Nat Geo Image collection ...

Elephants are the largest land animals and an integral part of Earth’s ecosystems. But which country is home to the most ...

BANGKOK(AP) — Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other — an issue in areas ...

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...