African Elephants »
Bad Economics: Pachyderm Poaching and Refuge Reductions
We are losing animal species at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and our wild places are increasingly coming under attack. If we’re not careful, our planet could soon have far fewer other kinds of beings
Read More »
Protecting the Woolly Mammoth to Save Today’s Elephants
The woolly mammoth—an animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago—is currently being considered for legal protection under conservation trade rules. “How that can be?” you might well ask. The answer lies in a story that’s entwined with some very
Read More »
Video: Watch as Elephants “Check In” at a Lodge in Zambia
The saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about elephants? When the builders of a five-star lodge in Zambia constructed their hotel over an ancient elephant path, they assumed
Read More »
Video: Saving an African Lion
While it’s never been easy to make your living as an animal in Africa, wildlife presently residing there face even more challenges than their ancestors did. For example, in the last four months in
Read More »
7 Photos of Animals in Love: A Tribute to Valentines Day
Valentines Day is upon us and it is a time to show those closest to us how much we truly love them. We have compiled a list of some of our favorite photos of
Read More »
An Elegy – and a Hope – for Elephants
A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE U.S. IVORY CRUSH Two years ago when I was on safari in Botswana, I saw my first herd of wild elephants. We heard them first—a low, rumbling thunder in
Read More »
Will the U.S. Destruction of Six Tons of Ivory Truly Curtail Poachers?
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulverized nearly six tons of illegal African and Asian elephant ivory. A conservative estimate of this ivory, which was seized at our nation’s ports of entry
Read More »
Video: Writing the World’s First Elephant Dictionary
When Katy Payne made a visit to the Portland Zoo in 1984, she had no idea it would soon change the course of her life. A naturalist and amateur musician, Katy had been studying
Read More »
