Botswana holds the world’s largest elephant population with one of the highest trophy-hunting quotas.

NAIROBI — Tanzanian authorities are keen on issuing more hunting permits despite mounting international pressure for the country to ban elephant trophy hunting in the areas surrounding its border with ...

When poaching amplifies the effect of higher hunting quotas, it is bad news for the future of Botswana’s elephant population ...

The reintroduction of elephant trophy hunting in Botswana in 2019, following a five-year moratorium, is likely severely ...

The Biden administration is considering making American hunters clear new hurdles to legally import African elephant hunting trophies. Supporters claim the new rules will better protect elephants by ...

African elephant populations have decreased by at least 60% over 50 years. In the face of steep population decline, the United States has moved to restrict the import of live African elephants and ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups and scientists filed a petition with the United States government today to stop U.S. hunters from importing elephant trophies from the famed cross-border Amboseli-West ...

Though rare for a tiger to attack a fully grown elephant, young elephants could be in danger of tiger attacks when they stray from their herd. In the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, India, ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other elephant body parts back to this country as trophies, in a pivot away from the support President Donald Trump voiced ...

The biggest elephant in Botswana has been killed by trophy hunters for its near 8-foot-long tusks. The elephant had been carrying 200 pounds of ivory in its tusks, and was the largest to be hunted in ...

Botswana is offering 287 elephant hunting licenses in April at the same time as a species of African elephant has been listed as critically endangered. Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National ...