They were men of iron nerve, unerring aim and, gazed at through a modern lens, it seems they were also capable of unbearable cruelty.

I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

British law firm Leigh Day said it is representing 10 people living near the Kasungu National Park on the Malawi-Zambia ...

The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As ...

Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...

Lions, Tigers and Zebras! Plus Giraffes, Hippos and Bears. The best zoos in the US include large enclosures that allow for free-roaming wildlife. Encounter programming, where visitors can get close to ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

SEE ALSO: Africa's elusive forest ... with an African elephant. Credit: paul manger Their study -- tiny as it is -- is one of the few to look at elephants in their natural habitats.

Reliable data about the true number of African forest elephants is difficult to come by due to their thick forest habitats, but estimates suggest that their population is around 150,000, meaning that ...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton spent a lifetime communing with African elephants, going on to champion their conservation during a brutal wave of poaching in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with Jane Goodall ...

The African elephant in the room ... that does not mean it's taking good care of the wildlife, habitat, local people or the economy of Zambia. All these are just as important – in my view ...

The average population trend for African savanna elephants was a decline of 70 per cent. Forest elephant populations declined ... These successes suggest ways to reverse elephant declines: tackling ...