In my decades of outdoor experience, no wild animal charge has threatened my life like my encounters with rampaging wild hogs ...

Growing between 10 to 13 feet tall, it is a rare type of elephant – positively prehistoric looking – known as a Super Tusker. “My first encounter with a big tusker was here in Tsavo National ...

The death of this tusker also means money, some of which filters back into the economy and local community. An elephant hunt varies in cost from $25,000 to $75,000 per trophy.

On the lush, rolling savannas that link northern Tanzania to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, foraging elephants move back and forth on a sloping landscape in the shadow of snow-capped Mount ...

In 2017, poachers killed and mutilated a big tusker named Satao II who was nearly 50 years old; one of the creature's tusks weighed 114 lbs. (51.5 kilograms) and the other weighed 111 lbs. (50.5 ...

A big tusker stands beside the road, as though waiting for us. His body is mud-caked, his left ear notched. His tusks scythe grasses flushed with the scent of rain; ...

There is concern regarding the loss of the genes that such a large tusker carries. Elephants are now believed to be growing smaller tusks because poaching and hunting has removed so many big ...

In Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, conservationists are fighting to protect the country’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” – male elephants with huge tusks.