An elephant stood on its hind legs to reach over the heads of tourists and rip a branch from a tree overhead in Zimbabwe.

A young elephant managed to get itself stuck between two tree stumps at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. But the rescue did not go as smoothly as anticipated.

The study did not track a continent-wide population tally because the various surveys employed different methodologies over ...

Savanna elephants have declined by about 70% and forest elephants by about 90% on average in the surveyed sites.

Meanwhile Elisabeth Valerio, a conservationist at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, which has a huge numbers of elephants destined to be culled, claims: 'The trauma of (elephant) family members ...

namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia, making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations in the world. According to Reuters, the culling also formed part of ...

"We used to hate elephants a lot," Kenyan farmer Charity Mwangome says, pausing from her work under the shade of a baobab ...

They have also claimed that they have more than enough elephants (in Zimbabwe’s statement it’s "too many elephants”) and that the cull will alleviate ongoing human-elephant conflict situations.

Chaimu the elephant returned to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Ithumba Reintegration Centre to share the special moment with her former caretakers Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

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Kamala the elephant, who was living at The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC, had “irreversibly declined” in health, forcing keepers to euthanize ...

Learn more If you're looking for a fun way to ring in the holiday season with friends and family, you can't go wrong with a white elephant party. For those not familiar, a white elephant is a gift ...