Lions know better than to take on elephants, at least without the safety of numbers. A video out of the Kruger National Park, ...

Kruger rangers face armed poachers daily while investigating elephant killings and recent poaching camps in a 2-million-hectare wilderness. Rangers undergo six-week intensive training, including 15km ...

Ariño, now 95, defends legal hunting in Africa in his books and recounts how he once shot a record 20 animals in just 75 ...

“There is a small quota of elephants in the area, and we only hunt two elephants a year,” Omujeve Hunting Safaris owner Corné Kruger told News24 in 2018, when the clip first surfaced.

Moreover, elephant populations in these countries have dramatically increased, supported by the incentives that hunting creates. Botswana was home to only 50,000 elephants in the 1990s.

Elephant killings on the Tanzanian side three decades ago prompted similar anger and led to the announcement of a moratorium on hunting. In December 1994, three Amboseli elephants were killed in ...

Botswana’s government says rural communities have earned $5 million since last year from the proceeds of elephant hunting. Conservationists object to the practice, but local officials say the ...

British hunters brought home in just one year the bodies of at least three African elephants they had shot, as well as scores ...

In this March 3, 2013 photo, elephants drink water in the Chobe National Park in Botswana. President Mokgweetsi Masisi has loosened restrictions on elephant hunting since he took office [File ...

Today, elephant hunting only happens in Mababe for six months out of the year. “When hunting season starts, [the elephants] begin to distance themselves. When it ends, we start to live with them ...