Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress hosted a ceremony this afternoon at the ...

Surveys in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park have revealed rare and hard data on the scale of the illegal ivory trade over the last eight years: 11,100 forest elephants have been slaughtered for their ...

Zahara, a 16-year-old African elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo, could give birth this fall to the first second-generation elephant conceived through artificial insemination. The youngest of the zoo's ...

The carcass of the first elephant was discovered on December 27, and that of the second elephant — a sabre-tusked bull named Sabre — was found on New Year’s Eve. Both elephants had their tusks removed ...

Asha, the 19-year-old Asian elephant gave birth once again. According to the Oklahoma City Zoo, Asha delivered a 332-pound female calf at 1:35 p.m. Zoo staff have been on 24-hour elephant birth watch ...

Tyke, a 20-year-old African bush elephant, was being forced to perform with Circus International at the Neal Blaisdell Centre ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A pregnant Sumatran elephant was found dead of suspected poisoning near a palm plantation in Indonesia’s Riau province on the island of Sumatra, officials said Friday.

Having had his way with blaxploitation flicks and the Catholic hierarchy in his debut GN Vatican Hustle, cartoonist Greg Houston now goofs on his hometown of Baltimore and superhero comics in the ...