NAIROBI — Tanzanian authorities are keen on issuing more hunting permits despite mounting international pressure for the country to ban elephant trophy hunting in the areas surrounding its border with ...

"Must be rigorously questioned." Officials spark backlash with shocking rule change on elephant hunting: 'We are alarmed' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Though rare for a tiger to attack a fully grown elephant, young elephants could be in danger of tiger attacks when they stray from their herd. In the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, India, ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana has issued 400 elephant hunting licenses amid fresh opposition from conservationists. International hunters pay up to $50,000 to obtain a license in order to hunt an ...

Botswana on Friday will hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since controversially scrapping a hunting ban last year, a wildlife official said. With unfenced parks and ...

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are pushing back against a local government plan to allow culling and trophy hunting to reduce elephant numbers in Madikwe Game Reserve.   According to the North ...

Far from it. The double whammy of poaching (illegal hunting) and habitat loss has led to a dramatic decline in populations of both African and Asian elephants in recent decades. In 1930, there were ...

GABERONE (Reuters) - Botswana's government has revoked the licenses of two professional hunters who shot dead a research elephant and then destroyed its collar to try to hide the evidence. In a ...

As a park visitor noticed the middle of the trunk looked tightly cinched, they realized that something was wrong and reported it.