Only a skull and a pair of trousers remained after a suspected rhino poacher was killed by an elephant and then eaten by lions in Kruger National Park, South African National Parks said. Only a skull ...

While American environmentalists focus primarily on saving field mice and frustrating development and energy production on the home front, there’s a growing need for genuine conservation and ...

Kenya’s tourism industry faces a gloomy future if the current killing of elephants is not contained. This scale of illegal ivory trade was demonstrated early this year when a gang of heavily armed ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's biggest animals were poached in near record numbers in 2012, with surging demand for horn and ivory from Asia driving the slaughter of rhinos and elephants. By ...

Maasai Mara, Kenya: Poachers have killed a male black rhino in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve and removed its horns. The rhino, which had in December last year been ear-notched and a microchip installed ...

Narok,Kenya: Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has increased allowances for rangers protecting rhinos and elephants in a bid to end poaching. Acting Director General William Kiprono said rangers guarding ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is reporting some cautiously good news for rhinos after years in which poachers killed them in record numbers. The government said Friday that most provinces have ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other African ...

Five suspected poachers entered Kruger National Park in South Africa last week to kill rhino living there, according to authorities. Only four of the men left alive. The fifth was killed by an ...