South Africa has just held its Southern African Elephant Indaba, where solutions to human-elephant conflict (HEC) were pushed forward with urgency – culling, trophy hunting, damage-causing animal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Botswanan government has enlisted a public relations firm with deep ties to Hollywood to push back against the bad publicity generated by the southern African nation's decision ...

A local government in South Africa has said that its elephant population has become too large, but its plan to reduce numbers has drawn sharp criticism. Mongabay reports that the North West Parks and ...

In 2014, former Botswana president Ian Khama banned elephant hunting. The measure, imposed the year before Cecil the Lion’s demise in neighbouring Zimbabwe put African trophy hunting firmly in the ...

MADRID – Spain’s king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly “a mistake” to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country’s severe economic crisis. In an ...

A pair of male elephants in the Okavango Delta, Botswana [File: Mike Hutchings/Reuters] Conservationists have raised the alarm about the Botswana government’s decision to increase its annual ...

MADRID (AP): Spain's king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly "a mistake" to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country's severe economic crisis. In an ...

After a four-year pause, hunting export quotas for high-value species in South Africa may return. Here's what's being ...

The administration of US President Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Thursday from animal rights groups after it authorized the import of Zimbabwean elephant hunting trophies. It also came ...

Botswana, home to the world's largest elephant population, on Friday was set to hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since scrapping a hunting ban last year. The sale will ...