In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

A safari operator in South Africa recently spotted a pink elephant calf playing in a waterhole — and no, he wasn’t watching Disney’s Dumbo. The “extremely rare” African elephant was “bathing in the ...

Discover the most photogenic waterholes in South Africa for summer wildlife viewing. Explore Addo, Kariega and Gondwana.

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

In Limpopo, a herd of seven tame elephants has advanced the cause of science like few others have done. The latest finding is ...

If seeing elephants in the wild is on your bucket list, these twelve places will bring you closer than you ever dreamed. Imagine standing just a stone’s throw from a creature so immense, so ancient, ...

In March, AWI submitted comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) urging the agency to ban the import of live African elephants and their trophies into the United States due to significant ...

In November, a pregnant African elephant named Semba was put on 24-hour watch at an Arizona zoo. Semba, the elephant “matriarch” at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, had birthed two babies before without ...