The area is known as a "poaching hot spot." African elephants are traditionally referred to as "tuskers" when their tusks grow so long they reach the ground. This makes them an especially ...

REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Elephants have seen an alarming decline in their populations, despite the global ban on ivory trade. About 62 percent of Central African forest elephants disappeared between ...

Big Tim, one of the last of the estimated few dozen remaining ‘tusker’ elephants left in Africa, died at age 50 of natural causes on Tuesday morning, the Kenya Wildlife Service said.

A Rogue tusker, CME3 (name give to tusker), that had crossed from Chhattisgarh into Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service also took to social media to pay tribute to Dida, saying she "was possibly Africa's largest female tusker" – the name given to elephants whose massive tusks touch the ...

It found large-scale declines in both species of African elephants – the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis) and the larger African bush elephant (L. africana). In just over half a century ...

Agbo is one of Sri Lanka’s largest elephants, and since June, a team of wildlife veterinary surgeons and support staff have been treating the tusker. With months among humans, Agbo started ...

In 2021, this species, as well as its close relative, the African forest elephant, received degraded conservation status. According to the IUCN, the forest elephant species was demoted to ...

The elephants are believed to have come from the forest around Savandurga. They split up into smaller groups in Nelamangala. An estimated 10 properties have seen some damage due to the tuskers in ...

Kolhapur: Since an elephant trampled a farmer to death on Tuesday in Sindhudurg district's Morle village, residents of Dodamarg tehsil are demanding forest officials to relocate all five elephants ...