More than 70% of the remaining African elephants are concentrated in southern African countries, particularly Botswana and ...

"This paper really shows the scale of the decline and how widespread it is across Africa." Elephants are now facing a range ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

To help protect elephants, the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ Wildlife Trafficking Alliance (WTA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are teaming up for a second time to organize a series of ...

The transnational trade of modern ivory is banned in a bid to protect elephants, but the trade of ... A nonprofit in Tanzania is training African giant rats in scent detection to fight wildlife ...

The study demonstrated that the giant rats successfully detected samples of elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales and ...

Analysis - Nigeria has a unique elephant population, made up of both forest-dwelling (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savanna-dwelling (Loxodonta africana) elephant species. But the animals are facing ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a New York law that largely banned sales and in-store displays ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

Giant African pouched rats have been trained to sniff out explosives and tuberculosis. Now, the rats show promise in another area: combatting the illegal wildlife trade.