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 ...

Police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers but a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dharmapuri: Tamil Nadu DGP Shankar Jiwal on Monday directed the transfer of a case regarding the suspicious death of an elephant poacher to the CB-CID, from the Dharmapuri district police.

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 ...