Once considered exotic quarry and beasts of burden, elephants are now viewed as treasures in need of saving. Since the first elephant story was published in National Geographic in 1906, the magazine ...

And we’re to blame. We’ve expanded into elephant territory, building homes and roads, felling forests and planting crops. More cruelly, people have indulged their desire for ivory trinkets that come ...

A desert matriarch leads her herd through The Hoanib, an ephemeral seasonal river in Namibia. Laura Manske: You’ve been filming elephants your entire adult life, ever since, at age 17, you became a ...

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. streaming rights to Werner Herzog's new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants, which had its world premiere at the Venice film festival ...