Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

Botswana, home to the largest population of elephants in the world, presents a fascinating yet troubling case where conservation success comes with significant human-wildlife conflict. As elephant ...

According to Marnewecke, the going rate for a 14-day, single elephant hunt is about $80,000. The trophy hunt limit of five elephants a year in Nyae Nyae represents real money to the San.

Some southern African countries, including Botswana, also depend on trophy hunting to keep wild animal populations in check. The country is home to a third of the entire African elephant ...

Botswana banned trophy hunting in 2014 but reversed this decision in 2019 amid the skyrocketing elephant population. Germany doesn't appear to be backing down, though, and officials have claimed ...

AWI also urged the USFWS to institute a full ban on African elephant trophy imports. The United States continues to be the world’s largest importer of hunting trophies, which exacerbates existing ...

Within a week we sued the administration for letting U.S. hunters import elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe. After Center action, in 2021 New York upheld a state ban on ivory and rhino horn ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rural farming communities on the border between the southern African countries of Malawi and Zambia are seeking damages and threatening to sue an international animal ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed new restrictions today on U.S. imports of sport-hunted African elephant trophies and live trade. The proposal halts trophy imports from ...

The elephants were meant to be contained ... to Germany in response to its criticism of Botswana's hunting and elephant trophy businesses. Germans should “live together with the animals in ...

Trophy hunting is effectively the legal shooting ... or has been rejected by, his herd. For elephants, it might be that they are on the Problem Animal Control list. David Barrett has killed ...