Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...

If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop ...

Botswana has more elephants than any other country, but it is a burden as well as a blessing. Elephant conservation is ...

The reintroduction of elephant trophy hunting in Botswana in 2019, following a five-year moratorium, is likely severely ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana’s government says it still doesn’t know what caused the deaths of hundreds of elephants in recent weeks, but testing continues. Poaching and anthrax have been ruled ...

Guest Column - When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the country’s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses — some months old ...

Four years ago, 350 elephants died near Botswana's Okavango Delta, but the cause of their deaths was a mystery. It turns out that blue-green algae fatally poisoned them. All the elephants died between ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the ...

Two tourists are speaking out after an elephant protecting her young calves began charging at them while they were on a canoe safari trip in Africa. The incident happened on Sept. 27 in Botswana’s ...

What is killing the elephants? Is it a novel pathogen or a poison? More than 350 elephants have mysteriously died in northern Botswana over the past two months, which scientists describe as a ...