Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With nearly half of the country’s population facing the risk of acute hunger, “we ...

A new short film, The Seed Bearers Last Walk, features life-size elephant puppets is drawing attention to the debate over elephant population management in South Africa, while highlighting scientific ...

From contraception to culling, no single tool offers a risk-free fix for elephant management. True conservation requires ...

Born Free calls for compassion, science and coexistence in response to troubling recent events in southern Africa.

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are pushing back against a local government plan to allow culling and trophy hunting to reduce elephant numbers in Madikwe Game Reserve. According to the North ...

In a move that has drawn global attention and stirred controversy, Zimbabwe has announced plans to cull dozens of elephants and distribute their meat to local communities. This decision comes amid ...

Any resumption of culling in South Africa’s national parks will have swift and severe repercussions globally, international conservationist Lawrence Anthony has warned. Known for rescuing animals from ...

Zimbabwe will cull dozens of elephants and distribute the meat for consumption to ease the ballooning population of the animals, its wildlife authority said Tuesday. The southern Africa country is ...

Ian Whyte watched in awe as a hungry elephant stripped the bark off three marula trees in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, hammering at nature with all its might. ”Within a few minutes, that bull ...

In South Africa they have a problem, a big one: too many elephants. For most of the 1900s extensive poaching threatened to wipe out the country’s elephants. In response, conservationists established ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a practice banned since 1994 as ...