A rare sighting of Oupoot, the last known elephant of the Knysna forest, has sparked excitement and prompted a conservation ...

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the ...

Next up was the last captive elephant in South Africa. Charley, an aging 4-ton African elephant, had outlived his fellow elephants at a zoo in the capital, Pretoria, where he’d stayed for more ...

WELGEVONDEN GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA — Samson, otherwise known as Elephant No. 1, is twisting his trunk around some succulent young tufts of grass, tugging them up and throwing them into his ...

South Africa has about 18,000 elephants and southern Africa is home to about 300,000 - half of all the elephants on the continent. Elephants can turn woodlands to grass and stubs in a matter of years.

We had numerous elephant sightings on our South Africa trip including a few family groups and a couple of lone males. Seeing them in documentaries or in zoos never quite captures just how big and ...

Charley, a 4-ton African elephant, is trained to enter a transport container Aug. 9 at the Pretoria National Zoological Gardens in South Africa before being relocated. Associated Press ...

South Africa Withdraws Species Protection, Elephant Management Laws Withdrawal comes after legal challenge from ranchers, hunters Legislation to have governed leopard hunting, rhino horn trade ...

A South African man died over the weekend after being trampled by an elephant while he tried to save his grandson at the country’s Kruger National Park. Shaik Adam Shabir Ammed, 59, was with his ...