Seized queen ants are valued at US$9,300 locally but could have fetched US$1 million in Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

The smallest of three elephant species, with oval-shaped ears and straighter, downward-pointing tusks, these creatures ... in Africa where “elephant poaching is now rare”—a little-known ...

which presumably identified them as belonging to a certain dealer or poacher.) The next day, his team tried to match pairs of tusks—he didn’t want to sample the same elephant twice—and ...

Poachers killed a wild elephant and took its tusks and claws in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram yesterday. The male elephant, around 7-8 years old, was found dead inside a protected forest area ...

Ants are probably pretty low on the list of species that spring to mind when it comes to the animals you'd probably think ...

A third elephant ... is ivory poaching,” he said. Asked why the animals had to be decapitated, he explained that cutting off the head was faster than removing the tusks from the skull, which ...

The Bornean pygmy elephant is listed as a completely protected species under the Sabah Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997. Those caught and found guilty of harming or killing the animals will face ...

The practice of giving tusks as dowry in neighbouring Indonesia may be behind the killings, conservationists say.

KOTA KINABALU - Ivory poachers may be responsible ... the dead elephants could have harvested the tusks. Sabah has launched the Captive Elephant Management Plan (Cemp) to safeguard one of its ...