Tanzania's elephant population has suffered a catastrophic decline in recent years, with numbers plummeting from an estimated 109,000 in 2009 to just 43,000 in 2014, according to the latest figures ...

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged ...

A 7-acre expansion to Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo opened to the public today, and Mabu, Samba, Punga, Sundzu and Lungile — a family of African elephants — are at the center of this long-awaited ...

Tanzania on Wednesday rejected findings by conservationists who said elephants could disappear from a reserve there within six years due to "industrial scale" poaching, saying the WWF analysis was ...

Tanzania charges a fee of $10,000-$20,000 for a licence to hunt an elephant trophy, which is split between the government and the community if the trophy is hunted in conservation areas run by ...

The sharp decline of the elephant population in Tanzania, most likely due to poaching, is catastrophic, a wildlife conservation group said Tuesday.

Elephants in the Amboseli Game Reserve face potential threats due to the hunting permits given yearly by the Tanzanian government.

Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya. About 2,000 elephants, including the "super ...

In 2013 alone, Tanzania reportedly lost 30 elephants a day to the illegal ivory trade. Britain's Environmental Investigation Agency published a major exposé last year on Tanzania's elephant kill-off.

Conservationists in Tanzania are using an unorthodox way of keeping elephants from wandering into human settlements - by throwing condoms filled with chilli powder at them.The method has proved ...

Tanzania's elephant population has suffered a catastrophic decline in recent years, with numbers plummeting from an estimated 109,000 in 2009 to just 43,000 in 2014, according to the latest figures ...