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Ivory poaching is surging out of control in Africa, a new study says. But scientists say they've found a way to use DNA "fingerprints" to track down the poachers. The study, which currently appears in ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...

A magnificent bull elephant with tusks so long he could rest them on the ground has been found dead in Kenya, his tusks hacked off and his face mutilated by poachers. The Guardian and Outside Magazine ...

Laikipia, Kenya; Three suspected poachers were on Friday arrested in Laikipia west as the war on poaching in the area intensifies. The three were arrested with four pieces of ivory weighing 49 ...

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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 ...

Let’s start with the African elephant, because we almost lost it. In July 1989, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi set fire to a giant heap of 2,000 tusks, worth about $2 million then (about $7.5 ...

Viewers of Poacher Season 1 are wondering how many episodes are in the series and when each new episode comes out. The eight-part crime drama is based on real events and tells the story of brave ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Satao, the world's biggest elephant, with his family in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya ...

Eighty percent of dead elephants killed by poachers, officials say. July 12, 2012 — -- Two defendants pleaded guilty in Manhattan Thursday to selling and offering for sale a ton of ivory items ...