Arterra/Marica van der Meer/Universal Images Group via Getty A Spanish tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant at a national park in South Africa, local authorities have shared.

The field manager of the tour company involved in the incident said the elephant responded to tourists getting too close to take pictures Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Photograph courtesy of De Beers Group In July 2018, this colossal effort represented just the beginning of a much larger commitment to translocate around 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique.

Find out more about elephant management in South Africa and Namibia. By Mark Schulman* Southern Africa just had one of the wettest summers on record, turning its usual adobe brown sunburnt landscapes ...

Caption Two elephants greeting each other with gentle touch at the Addo Elephant National Park in south Africa. Elephants are highly social creatures, and have been documented to engage in many ...

Zimbabwe and South Africa. Elephant poaching, however, has increased all over sub-Saharan Africa, as seen on the map above with red indicating more poaching since 2008 and blue equating to less.