Why they matter: Elephants shape ecosystems by creating water sources, dispersing seeds, and maintaining savanna landscapes, benefiting countless other species. What’s threatening them: Poaching, ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters with the giant mammals frequently end in tragedies. Elephants are being shot, and their ...

According to Tara Easter, writing for the organization, the move to place both species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act would close a regulatory loophole in controlling the illegal ...