elephants
Elephant poaching falls but ‘tens of thousands still being killed every year’
The illegal killing of African elephants for their ivory seems to have fallen from record peaks but poaching of the animal is still far too high, an international...
One sanctuary seeks to help save Myanmar’s timber elephants
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Ivory poaching could wipe out elephants and rhinos ‘by 2034’
Elephants and rhinos could be extinct within two decades, campaigners are warning ahead of marches across the world to call for greater protection for...
100,000 elephants killed in Africa, study finds
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s...
Elephants have stronger sense of smell than dogs or rats, new study sniffs out
Bomb detection squads may switch from dogs to elephants going by a recent study by Japanese scientists proclaiming the pachyderm as the species with the...
Poachers massacre 68 elephants in Congo, slay Kenya’s oldest tusker
One of Africa’s oldest national parks is under attack “from all fronts,” its director said Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered...
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