A herd of 12 African elephants at a Kent wildlife park will be in the spotlight on World Elephant Day, as people are asked to support and protect the animals. Howletts Wild Animal Park, near ...

Heartwarming footage captures a herd of African elephants travelling across the rugged landscape of Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, with several tiny calves tucked safely among the adults. Covered ...

A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the clock was ticking before predators or exhaustion could take over.

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

Three generations are represented in the elephant herd at Howletts Wild Animal Park A herd of 12 African elephants at a Kent wildlife park will be in the spotlight on World Elephant Day, as people are ...