Poaching likely created a generation of tuskless elephants, scientists say Scientist are looking to see if poaching has altered the genetics of the herd.

New findings suggest that, as a result of widespread poaching, elephants have evolved to not have tusks.

Elephant poaching reduced to zero at African reserve: Conservationists The Niassa Reserve, one of Africa's largest protected wilderness areas, has marked an entire year without finding a single ...

What drives elephant poaching? It’s not greed Fewer elephants were poached in areas where communities were healthier and wealthier, a study on thousands of killings in 30 African countries found.

The analysis also revealed that, on a continent-wide scale, elephant poaching began picking up in 2008 and peaked in 2011, with around 40,000 animals killed that year alone.

Female elephants without any tusks became much more common after intense poaching slashed the elephant population in Mozambique.

Ivory demand has fallen, especially from Chinese markets – the biggest driver behind poaching in Africa, according to a study that appeared in the journal Nature Communications last month. But ...

Researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Do they have a future? The number of African elephants being slaughtered by poachers annually has more than halved, with the decline linked to waning Chinese demand for illegal ivory. South-east ...

Almost 90 elephant carcasses have been found during a survey of elephant populations in northern Botswana, revealing “unprecedented” levels of poaching in the country, according to Elephants ...

Female elephant orphans face a hard-knock life compared to their counterparts with surviving mothers, and that doesn’t bode well for the species’ ability to bounce back from the poaching ...

Elephant poaching is alive and well. Scientists examining seized shipments of ivory from Africa have found that 90% came from elephants that died within the last three years.