The pulverization of the tusk in the capital Abuja follows a similar event in October where officials destroyed four tonnes of seized pangolin scales valued at $1.4 million. Thousands of elephants ...

Despite this imposing size, the now-extinct straight-tusked elephants were routinely hunted and systematically butchered for their meat by Neanderthals, according to a new study of the remains of ...

Charley, an aging 4-ton African elephant, enters his adaption enclosure to acclimatize at a reserve in South Africa, Aug. 19 after being transported from Pretoria's National Zoological Gardens.

Yaounde, Cameroon: May 4, 2018: Rangers have seized 106 ivory tusks and arrested two suspect traffickers near the town of Djoum in the South Region of Cameroon. The rangers from the Dja Biosphere ...

Nonetheless, the absence of tusks does not seem to have hurt the Addo elephant population much. It has been doubling once every 13 years and now numbers more than 600.