Elephant tramples Limpopo game ranger to death

A Limpopo game ranger who set out to take pictures in the bush on his own has been trampled to death by an elephant.

Rangers outgunned by elephant poachers

A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks.

Asia's greed for ivory puts African elephant at risk

Researchers have found that more than 14 000 products made from the tusks and other body parts of elephants were seized in 2009.

Jumbo shame

Tour operators accused of torturing wild elephants, reports Yolandi Groenewald.

Kenya's elephants dying during severe drought

A drought in Kenya is so bad that it is even felling the giants of the animal kingdom -- the country's famed elephants.

Map of elephant DNA reveals trail of ivory smugglers

Scientists have used a revolutionary genetic technique to pinpoint the area of Africa where smugglers are slaughtering elephants.

Elephant-human clashes force mass translocation

Malawi is teaming up with an animal welfare group to move 60 elephants from a densely populated area, where at least 10 people have been killed.

Poaching drives skittish elephants across Zim's borders

Growing pressure from poaching and human encroachment has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate across Zimbabwe's borders, said conservationists.

Elephant fans tune into online birthing site

Thousands of elephant fans have registered on an online site promising live footage of the first birth of an elephant in Belgium.

Over $6m raised in SA ivory auction

Approximately 47 tonnes of stockpiled ivory on auction fetched about $6,7-million for South Africa's conservation efforts, says SA National Parks.

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