At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the ...

Kenya's rescue marks Global Sanctuary for Elephants’ second elephant relocation in 2025 and a milestone in ethical elephant care in South America. This is Kenya’s first real chance to simply live as ...

In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual ...

Don’t call them Dumbo. African elephants can not only communicate among themselves but actually call each other by unique names while roaming around the savanna, a newly published academic study has ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...

A rodent-borne virus led to the death of the only African elephant at the zoo in Indian capital Delhi, officials have told the BBC. Shankar, a 29-year-old male elephant, died on 17 September after ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research. In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch ...