Several African countries with some of the world’s largest elephant populations will push this year for looser controls on legal ivory trade, while another group of countries on the continent says more restrictions are the best way to curb the illegal killing of elephants for their tusks.
Read moreBerlin’s unwanted Christmas trees have ended their days as a festive snack for zoo elephants and stocking fillers for some of their fellow residents.
Read moreCelebrating the advancement of its effort to make the Bronx Zoo free one of its Asian elephants, the Nonhuman Rights Project said Monday that Happy is the world’s first elephant to secure a habeas corpus order.
Read moreFighting to end the 41-year captivity at the Bronx Zoo of an Asian elephant named Happy, a nonprofit says the legal battle it started has been languishing in a court west of Rochester for over a month.
Read moreA Massachusetts zoo must face Endangered Species Act claims over its treatment of two Asian elephants in the collection, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreBotswana, long viewed as a rare refuge for African elephants, is coming under increasing threat from poachers.
Read moreElephants possess a “zombie” gene that makes them nearly immune to cancer, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports – a finding that offers hope for applications in human cancer biology.
Read moreAnimal rights groups say they will establish Europe’s first sanctuary for former circus elephants.
Read moreAn animal rights group filed a Freedom of Information Request with the Interior Department Tuesday in a bid to better understanding why it changed a long-standing policy restricting the import of trophies from hunted endangered species.
Read moreThe Trump administration is once again allowing Americans to import the body parts of African elephants shot for sport — a practice the president himself decried as recently as last November.
Read moreA leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials said Monday.
Read moreBilly the Asian bull elephant took center stage once again at Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday, where animal activists and a city councilman called for a review of the elephant’s health at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Read moreThe DC Circuit ruled Friday that the Obama administration failed to follow the right procedures when it banned importing elephant hunting trophies from Zimbabwe.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s rollback – and nearly immediate flip-flop – of a ban on importing big-game trophies from Zimbabwe has sparked outrage, confusion and a lawsuit filed Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Sunday expressed more doubts about a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported, appearing to question whether “this horror show” would actually aid in the conservation of any animal.
Read moreEntrusting hunters with the survival of the threatened African elephant, U.S. wildlife regulators removed an Obama-era restriction on the importation of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Read moreThe Voice for the Animals Foundation and Lily Tomlin seek writ of mandate, asking a Superior Court judge to make Los Angeles and the city zoo deliver records on their treatment of the aging, allegedly abused Billy the Elephant.
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The owner of an antique shop in New York City’s affluent Sutton Place enclave pleaded guilty Thursday to felonies related to his sale of illegal elephant ivory.
Read moreChallenging a Massachusetts zoo’s plan to close its elephant exhibit when the main attractions die, local advocates brought a federal complaint to have the long-suffering beasts live out their last days at a natural reserve.
Read moreGathering inside Manhattan’s Central Park, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation crushed more than a ton of ivory from the largest seizure in the state’s history at a Thursday morning ceremony.
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