Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans ...

But the Biden administration’s long-awaited rules are fueling fierce debates over protection of the species both at home and abroad. The Fish and Wildlife Service finalized new rules Friday intended ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently broke up an alleged illegal poaching front in Los Angeles ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for releasing a final rule today that provides additional Endangered Species Act protections for ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service released a final rule that provides important additional Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled African elephants. However, the agency failed to prohibit the ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...

Night has fallen; an elephant mother and her calf walk through Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which covers more than 4000 square kilometres of rainforest in the northern Republic of the Congo. This ...

JOHANNESBURG - Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by ...

Tuna are one of the ocean’s most important commercial fish, providing food for millions of people. Once endangered from overfishing, this species has been helped by sustainable fishing quotas.