Wildlife Exports Fear for African Elephants
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last...
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Elephants and eels may find life  slightly easier after trade curbs imposed by U.N. talks ending  on Friday that are a pinprick to slow what may be the worst  wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree to Africa's big browsing mammals
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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South Africa needs to consider  restarting elephant culls because growing numbers of the mammal  now threaten local habitats, the WWF conservation group has  said.
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Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said Thursday.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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The remains of 100 African   elephants killed for their tusks have been found in Chad not   far from Sudan's troubled Darfur region, conservationists said   on Wednesday.
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A genetic test that can determine the origin of ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products.
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The great white shark, African rhinos and the American bald eagle are among the animals and fauna that will take center stage at an international conference on regulating trade in endangered species that opens Saturday.
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The hunting of wild animals by hungry refugees in East Africa threatens wildlife populations, say conservationists.
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A list of the winners and losers at the two-week meeting of the 171-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in The Hague.  WINNERS:  AFRICAN ELEPHANTS: Four southern African countries' can sell their ivory stockpiles. No more ivory sales allowed for nine years.
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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The world risks losing many of its rare livestock breeds unless conservation steps are taken now, a study warns.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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ULUSABA, South Africa  - Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomized by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.