A young elephant managed to get itself stuck between two tree stumps at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. But the rescue did not go as smoothly as anticipated.

Meanwhile Elisabeth Valerio, a conservationist at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, which has a huge numbers of elephants destined to be culled, claims: 'The trauma of (elephant) family members ...

They know practically zero about the pre-independence Zimbabwe. To them colonial Zimbabwe is a phantom. Post-independence Zimbabwe to and for them dropped from heaven like manna. Frankly I have no ...

In late August 2024, Namibia announced plans to slaughter 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants—a number later raised to a staggering 1,002 ...

namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia, making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations in the world. According to Reuters, the culling also formed part of ...

They have also claimed that they have more than enough elephants (in Zimbabwe’s statement it’s "too many elephants”) and that the cull will alleviate ongoing human-elephant conflict situations.

Chaimu the elephant returned to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Ithumba Reintegration Centre to share the special moment with her former caretakers Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

Kamala the elephant, who was living at The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC, had “irreversibly declined” in health, forcing keepers to euthanize ...

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 unprecedented ...

A white elephant gift exchange is one of the few gift-giving events where the rules are minimal and your choices are only limited by price (which is perhaps the golden rule: Do not go over budget).

Learn more If you're looking for a fun way to ring in the holiday season with friends and family, you can't go wrong with a white elephant party. For those not familiar, a white elephant is a gift ...