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 ...

Population drops by 60% in just five years as ivory poaching surges Tanzania's elephant population has suffered a catastrophic decline in recent years, with numbers plummeting from an estimated ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya. About 2,000 elephants, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – The sharp decline of the elephant population in Tanzania, most likely due to poaching, is catastrophic, a wildlife conservation group said Tuesday. The Tanzanian government on Monday ...

AMBOSELI, Kenya (Reuters) - In the rolling grasslands of the Amboseli wildlife park, conservationists fret about an emerging threat to Kenyan elephants that are crucial to its tourism business: ...

Chinese-led criminal syndicates are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, a trade that has caused half of Tanzania’s elephants to be poached in the past five ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. WildlifeDirect Chief Executive Paula Kahumbu. [File, Standard] Elephants in the Amboseli ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania on Wednesday rejected findings by conservationists who said elephants could disappear from a reserve there within six years due to "industrial scale" poaching, ...

A 7-acre expansion to Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo opened to the public today, and Mabu, Samba, Punga, Sundzu and Lungile — a family of African elephants — are at the center of this long-awaited addition.

The war against wildlife crime has taken another victim. While tracking elephant poachers from a helicopter over a game reserve in Tanzania, British pilot Roger Gower was shot by the criminals. He ...

Elephants in the Amboseli Game Reserve face potential threats due to the hunting permits given yearly by the Tanzanian government. Marking World Elephant Day on Monday, August 8, Doctor Paula Kahumbu, ...