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

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

Botswana To Resume The Hunting Of Elephants Fewer than 400 licenses will be granted annually, the government of Botswana said Thursday. Conservationists are decrying the decision as horrific and ...

Hunting excursions in Zimbabwe can cost more than $37,000 and hunters also have to pay up to $14,500 for each elephant killed, according to safari hunting websites.

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 ...

Hunting provides the financial resources that allow game managers in Africa to implement anti-poaching programs, including the hiring of game wardens and rangers to protect elephant herds.

Botswana is home to some 130,000 elephants, more than any other country in the world. For years, trophy hunters from the U.S. and Europe came to Botswana to hunt large male elephants, paying tens ...

Botswana on Wednesday announced the lifting of its ban on elephant hunting, attributing its decision to an apparent rise in “human-elephant conflict” caused by rising elephant numbers.

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 ...

“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.

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, ...

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.