elephants

Sri Lanka bans single-use plastics to save elephants

Colombo, Sri Lanka (AFP) -- Sri Lanka will ban single-use plastics, the government said Tuesday, in a move that follows…

3 years ago

The pandemic and climate change is testing as never before the delicate balance of human co-habitation with the natural…

5 years ago

Nasal and anal samples taken from 28 elephants at a forest reserve in India COIMBATORE, India (AFP) -- Twenty-eight…

5 years ago

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -- Breeding elephants trampled a suspected rhino poacher to death at the weekend in South…

5 years ago

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore began destroying nine tonnes of seized ivory Tuesday, the largest such action globally in recent…

6 years ago

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Conservationists have warned a sudden change in Myanmar's law allowing the commercial farming of tigers, pangolins…

6 years ago

GABORONE, Botswana (AFP) — Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, the head of the wildlife…

6 years ago

NEW DEHLI, India (AFP) — India pledged to investigate Thursday the death of a pregnant elephant that ate explosives-filled fruit,…

6 years ago