A similar human impact is believed to have affected the Asian elephants also. Furthermore, heavy poaching of “big tuskers,” male elephants with large tusks, removes them from the breeding gene ...

African bush elephants and Asian elephants are considered to be ... The main threat that elephants face is poaching. Up to 30,000 elephants are killed every year for their tusks.

The internet has fallen in love with an elephant calf born to Asian elephant Rose-Tu on Saturday. The Oregon Zoo has yet to ...

An emerging black market for elephant skins is putting new pressure on elephant populations in Myanmar. Poaching has long been a problem in the country. But in the past, ivory was the draw and males ...

prevent poaching, and reduce habitat encroachment. OKC Zoo is the only AZA zoo leading research in Sri Lanka to better understand Asian elephant social relationships, land use, and the impacts of ...

But none of this implies that we are near the end of the elephant poaching crisis. Tens of thousands of elephants ... process – under which 19 African and Asian countries were required to take ...

Once widespread in India, Asian elephants are now restricted to northeastern, northwestern, central and southern India. Though their numbers are hard to quantify, this endangered species of elephant ...