BANGKOK — Four tons of African elephant ivory worth $6 million has been seized at a Bangkok port in a container labelled as beans, Thai customs said on Monday, in the kingdom’s largest-ever haul of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The elephant with some of the longest, heaviest tusks in the world died at Amboseli ...

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...

Chinese authorities have seized 7.5 tonnes of ivory -- 2,748 elephant tusks -- in one of the biggest busts in recent years as the country cracks down on the sale of illegal wildlife products. The ...

There are two types of African elephant, the African savanna elephant, known for its large size and wide, curved tusks, and the smaller African forest elephant, which has straighter tusks and can be ...