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

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 ...

Despite stricter anti-poaching laws and increased wildlife protection, African elephants could become functionally extinct in our lifetime due to humans' uncontrolled lust for ivory ...

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

After poachers tore through a Mozambican elephant population, tuskless females tripled in number as humans altered the species’s evolutionary trajectory.

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 ...

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 ...

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.