Shutterstock Image 95-year-old Antonio "Tony" Sánchez-Ariño doesn't regret killing more than 1,000 elephants throughout his ...

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

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.

“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.

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

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 ...

A lot of elephant trophy hunters are U.S. citizens, and the United States imports more mammal trophies than any other country in the world, by far—more than 10 times the number of the second ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...