OPEN WILDERNESS NEAR ARUSHA, Tanzania – Pratik Patel gazed glumly as the herder’s scrawny brown dogs moved between piles of bones to eat the rotting elephant flesh. He pointed to the nearby road and ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – While Autumn means hunting season is in full swing, the issue of poaching affects wildlife worldwide, even in Idaho and Wyoming. A recent report by the Boone and Crockett ...

Oregon’s poaching problem continues with the slaying of OR-88, the breeding female of the Lookout Mountain wolf pack. This week the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the poaching death ...

Botswana, long considered a safe haven for elephants in Africa, has "a significant elephant-poaching problem," a conservationist group that carried out an aerial wildlife survey in the country said.

FILE - In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54. The past two years have seen a big increase in wolf poaching cases in ...

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In 2015, a 62-year-old man named Kunjumon Devasey from a remote village in Kerala arrived at his local forest division office to turn himself in. His crime: for nearly two years, the former forest ...

Pigeon poaching is a topic many outside New York City may not be familiar with. While pigeons live in nearly every city and town across the United States, it is New York that is home to one of the ...

Officials note many such crimes go undetected: 'only a fraction of what is actually happening' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Poaching, illegally capturing or killing animals, has become a significant problem ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - An elephant orphanage in Kenya is seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants brought there because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa, the founder said Wednesday. Dame ...

SEATTLE -- Firewood poaching is becoming a problem in Olympic National Forest. People can buy inexpensive permits to cut down trees in certain areas of the nation's natural forest. But Forest Service ...