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A ground-breaking study published today (June 27) in the prestigious journal, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, unveils an intriguing connection between hot testicles and the evolution of potent anti-cancer genes in elephants.
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Rare, ‘one-in-a-million’ footage of a critically endangered wild forest elephant fleeing from a technologically generated bee sound, has been captured by a wildlife camera trap in remote Liberia, western Africa.
FINAL Tuesday, June 25: Males of many species slow down in their pursuit of females as they age. Not so with elephants. A new study published today reveals that bull elephants increase the energy they put into reproduction as they get...
JUNE 12 2019. Elephants move faster and straighter when moving through risky areas, researchers have discovered, meandering more when safer. The study by Save the Elephants, the University of Twente and the University of Oxford, further builds...
Botswana - whose progressive policy on protecting elephants has led to their elephant population becoming the largest in Africa - has now announced that they intend to open sport hunting. While we consider hunting elephants to be morally...
Far more serious is Botswana’s intention to lobby for the re-opening of trade in ivory. The global momentum towards banning all trade in elephant tusks has seen huge success, and China's 2018 closure of its domestic ivory market - the...
“The sentencing of one of Africa’s most notorious ivory smugglers, Yang Feng Glan, in Tanzania today (February 19, 2019) shows that the Tanzanian government is serious about stamping out wildlife crime in the country. Yang Feng Glan was...
Save The Elephants is deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic news that Paul Allen has died. Paul had a heartfelt passion for elephants. To him they symbolised Nature, and he had dedicated a significant part of his enormous intellectual and...
The London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is an important landmark in the fight against wildlife crime and the destruction that it causes, particularly to elephants. Since the initial London Conference in 2014 the situation has...
Increased amounts of ivory are flowing into China from Myanmar, according to a new publication by Save the Elephants. The report ‘Myanmar’s Growing Illegal Ivory Trade with China’ released today (subs: October 2, 2018) shows that one town...
Save The Elephants and Kalama Community Wildlife ConservancyThe Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy and Save The Elephants have joined forces to launch a bold new campaign to inspire local communities to protect wildlife and livestock corridors in...
Thursday August 9, 2018: Young female orphan elephants have a tougher social life than non-orphans, a new study suggests, adding to a growing body of evidence of how the impacts of poaching cascade through elephant societies.The research, part of a...
