Elephant tusks fetch a fortune in the black market as a surge in demand for ivory in the East continues to fuel the illicit trade in elephant tusks, especially from Africa. Police and Kenya ...

Guwahati: Three individuals were arrested in Nagaon, Assam with a huge quantity of wild animal parts on Thursday. As per sources, the suspected poachers were arrested by the officials of the forest ...

A suspect who was ferrying 15 pieces of elephant tusks was arrested hours after he and an accomplice escaped and abandoned the cargo as security agents approached their hideout in Lungalunga, Kwale ...

An attempt to sell a tusk of an elephant by a gang was successfully foiled by a team of officials from the Department of Forests here on Friday. Following specific input that the gang was heading ...

Other elephants are the African forest elephant (second largest) and the Asian elephant (smallest). They are the only living members of the Elephantidae family, which includes historic mammoths. They ...

This is taller than any other recorded elephant in history. His weight was estimated to be over 24,000 pounds, making him one of the heaviest elephants ever recorded as well. One of the most striking ...

A 77-year-old tourist was attacked and killed by an elephant in a nature reserve in India on Tuesday evening. The man was riding his motorcycle on the road when he was suddenly confronted by the ...

Despite the strict vigilance, elephant tusks are being illegally removed and traded, particularly in religious states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. Enhanced monitoring and coordination ...

Further complicating the issue is that illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth ivory often end up in the same carving workshops in China. None of the tusk hunters I meet during an expedition to ...