African elephants have long been facing a range of threats, which are both natural and human-made. While human activities such as poaching for ivory are a major danger, habitat loss due to agriculture ...

South Bengal, Chhattisgarh, MP, Maharashtra had negligible elephants till herds from Jharkhand, Odisha moved in around the ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

Culling, hunting and quick-fix solutions dominate policy talk, but without reliable national figures on human-elephant conflict, South Africa risks sacrificing both elephants and communities to ...