Al Jazeera on MSN

Why are conservationists alarmed about Botswana’s biggest elephant hunt?

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...
Mongabay News on MSN

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...
Panda

Huge Fall in African Elephant Population as Poaching Crisis Continues

Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Africa’s elephant population has ...
Daily Maverick

Better data, same emergency — the forest elephant crisis continues

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...
IFLScience

There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
The Conversation

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...
The Atlantic

African Elephants Could Disappear In the Next Century

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 ...
The Washington Post

S. Africa Moves to Resume Culling of Elephants

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 ...
The Conversation

Ebony and ivory: why elephants and forests rise and fall together in the Congo Basin

Matthew Scott Luskin receives funding from NASA, ARC, and the National Geographic Society. The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s ...
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Why Zimbabwe is turning to elephant meat to feed its hungry population

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 ...
NPR

Why African elephant poop is so important to this American guitar company

A new study shows how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars — and how poaching of elephants is contributing to a decrease in ebony trees. The world is connected in surprising ways. A ...