Titan, who the zoo says weighs more than 8,000 pounds, was born in Eswatini, an African nation near Mozambique. He and ...

African savanna elephants are the largest species of elephant and the biggest terrestrial animal on Earth. They are easily distinguished by their very large ears—which allow them to radiate excess ...

The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park.

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

“Savanna elephants were just declared endangered by international ... that 54% of all wildlife hunted for trophies in Africa are killed by U.S. trophy hunters. African savannah elephant in Kruger ...

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

According to the IUCN, African elephants have an estimated population of about 415,000. Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside ...

A tourist at South Africa's Kruger National Park was trampled to death by an elephant as he was trying to protect children, ...

There are two extant species of elephants: the African savanna elephant and the Asian elephant. The African elephant is the largest land mammal on Earth; the Asian elephant is slightly smaller.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Central African states on Saturday said they would mobilize up to 1,000 soldiers and law-enforcement officials to immediately start joint military operations to protect the region’s last remaining ...

A comprehensive survey of Africa’s savanna elephants, published in 2016, found that their numbers declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014. Between 2002 and 2011, the African forest elephant ...