Populations of forests elephants, which play key roles in maintaining forest habitat, have declined 63 percent in Central Africa since 2001.

Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001.

Three Francophone countries have joined the Elephant Protection Initiative, an Africa-led conservation initiative to eradicate ivory trade and stop the slaughter of the continent’s elephants by poa

A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks. They were handed five-year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each.

Three elephants in the Rimoi National Game Reserve in Elgeyo Marakwet have been killed as as a result of human-wildlife conflicts.

Cameroon says a wave of attacks by armed elephant poachers has killed at least eight soldiers and rangers in a northern national park.

Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Depart

Cape Town - In the last two years, China has imported more than 80 live Asian elephants from across its border in Laos and almost 100 juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe.

The government has begun relocating 21 elephants from Solio and Sangare ranches in Laikipia county to the Tsavo National Park in the Coast region.

Kenya is experiencing a sharp decline in elephant and rhino poaching, a senior government official said on Tuesday.