NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Standing before a pile of charred elephant ivory as dusk covered the surrounding savannah, Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders grasped hands and prayed. Let religion, ...

MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania -- The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened. It wasn't a killer who targeted ...

International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently announced a collaboration with the World Wide Fund (“WWF”) for Nature - Germany to focus on advancing the conservation of critically endangered ...

Asian elephants once roamed across most of Asia, now they’re restricted to just 15% of their original range, in a number of fragmented and isolated populations around south and south-east Asia. Today, ...

More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea levels – climate change is already causing immense harm to the natural world, putting ...

On 22nd September 2015 the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism of the United Republic of Tanzania in collaboration with WWF Tanzania commemorated the National Elephant Day. On 22nd September ...

Elephants bathe in a pond at the Elephant Conservation Center in Laos' Sainyabuli province - Copyright AFP TANG CHHIN Sothy Elephants bathe in a pond at the Elephant ...

For centuries, elephants have been called forest gardeners for good reasons. “When an elephant moves through trees and bushes, it pushes them aside,” says Dr Thomas Breuer from WWF Germany. “This ...

There are many instances on social media showing people being chased by wild elephants. In one viral video, two men run down a road with an elephant in close pursuit. The men are running as fast as ...