A former zoo owner, Frank Thompson, brought Connie to the U.S. with seven other elephant babies who were orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1987 when poachers killed the adults in the herd for their tusks.

Zelda Venter The University of Pretoria’s (UP) veterinary team came to the rescue of a distressed Cambodian elephant with a fractured tusk by performing the first extraction of this kind.Dealing with ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

UP’s veterinary team performs Cambodia’s first tusk extraction on an elephant, marking a milestone in global wildlife ...

In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

Easton Janet Taylor from the U.K. and Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand — were attacked by a female elephant that was with ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Zoo provided an update on the two new Asian elephants, Billy and Tina . The zoo said they have started ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

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

Two female tourists in Zambia were killed by an elephant Thursday while on a walking safari in a national park, police said.

Two elderly female tourists from the U.K. and New Zealand have been killed by an elephant while on a walking safari in a ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.