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 ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...

After closer inspection it appears that most of the animals were killed for their tusks within the past three weeks. “The scale of elephant poaching is by far the largest I’ve seen or read ...

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 ...

Two poachers will serve five years imprisonment after they were found guilty of being in possession of elephant tusks. Andrew Yegon and Joseph Karani were charged with two counts of being in ...

In a late-night operation at Kariyajan in Bordumsa, the Khatangpani forest department arrested a notorious poacher and ...

NAIROBI - Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers but a more esoteric ring trading a much smaller, more ...

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 elephant tusks, the official said is suspected to ... closely with Kenya Wildlife Service to counter threats from poachers sneaking into game parks in the region. “We have no room for ...