Most conservationists would agree that you should not interfere with mother nature. But there are exceptions to every rule.
The owner of a Philadelphia art store was arrested Tuesday and charged with smuggling and conspiracy for illegally importing and selling African elephant ivory, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Edie the African elephant will not be disciplined or punished for an incident that resulted in the death of a handler, the director of Tennessee's Knoxville Zoo said Saturday.
Scientists have discovered a new species of elephant, and it's been right under their noses the whole time.
One Singaporean national was detained and another released Saturday in connection with an alleged attempt to smuggle raw elephant ivory out of Kenya, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Trained dogs find contraband ivory before smugglers can take it out of Kenya.
A group of international and Kenyan scientists believe they may have discovered a new mammal species in a Kenyan forest near the Somali border.
Two suspects were arrested over the weekend after authorities found two tons of raw elephant ivory and five rhinoceros horns at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
CNN's David McKenzie reports on a soccer game of a very different kind.
The real giant of the World Cup isn't Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka or Lionel Messi -- it's Namibia, a four-ton orphaned elephant with serious dribbling skills and a placid temperament unlike many of the stars on the human fields.
Two hundred and sixty brightly painted life-sized fiberglass elephants have appeared across London.
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