Weighing almost 2.5 tonnes, it was said to be one of the biggest hauls ever seized The Nigerian government has destroyed an $11m (£7m) stockpile of confiscated elephant tusks that had been ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... and that’s thanks to both their big brains and the combination of both tusks and a trunk. These animals are capable of using their ...

A survey has found populations of elephant, gorillas and chimpanzees in and around two national parks in southeastern ...

Fifteen thousand elephant tusks, piled so high and so deep that the smell of death still clinging to them is overwhelming. The largest are taller than the men who guard them. The heaviest tusk ...

Botswana has the world's largest elephant population ... the Namibian border and he discovered a string of elephant carcasses with their tusks removed for the first time. But these latest killings ...

Krishnagiri: Forest officers attached to the Hosur forest division on Sunday arrested a seven-member gang for attempting to sell a pair of elephant tusks. The wildlife warden of the Hosur forest ...