"Ghost Elephants" follows National Geographic explorer Dr. Steve Boyes on an obsessive philosophical escapade through Namibia ...

Investigators with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) on Thursday seized a large amount of illegal animal parts suspected of being trafficked by a business in Los Angeles County.

Wildlife investigators with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife say they’ve uncovered what they suspect is a massive illegal animal-parts trafficking operation in Los Angeles County tied to ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations ...

Matthew Scott Luskin receives funding from NASA, ARC, and the National Geographic Society. The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s ...

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 ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell apart ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...