Ever wondered what the largest land animal is? "African Elephants: The Largest Animal on Earth," will give you the info you ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The elephant with some of the longest, heaviest tusks in the world died at Amboseli ...

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has moved the body of one of Africa’s ... for his enormous tusks, one weighing 72 kilogrammes, the other 73, but also his character. “Elephant families are ...

This leads to around 20,000 elephants being killed each year and their tusks being sold illegally around the world, especially in some parts of Asia. The East African rift features some of Africa ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... Tragically though, for the second time in the last century, elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks ...

Officials say the tourist was trampled while trying to protect children who left a vehicle and ran into the bush near a herd ...

They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls ... and the seed dispersal provided by them is crucial to the maintenance of tree diversity in Central Africa ...

However, they say more effort is still needed to combat poaching for tusks and the trafficking of great apes. See All Key Ideas A survey has found populations of elephant, gorillas and chimpanzees ...