Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die-off: toxic bacteria in their watering holes.

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 ...

Hundreds of elephants are suddenly dying in Botswana, in circumstances that conservationists are struggling to explain. Mark Hiley, co-founder of UK-based charity National Park Rescue, told Business ...

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More than 360 elephants have died in mysterious circumstances in Botswana in the past three months, according to local conservationists. Some carcasses were found clustered around waterholes, while ...

Botswana's elephants are literally dropping dead. Hundreds of elephant carcasses have been found scattered across a remote, narrow region of the north — and poaching isn't to blame. The mystery has ...

Toxins produced by bacteria found in water have been blamed for hundreds of mysterious elephants deaths in Botswana. A news conference on Monday (September 21) heard that the number of dead elephants ...

[vemba-video id=”world/2020/07/02/botswana-elephants-mystery-mckenzie-vpx.cnn”] By Julia Hollingsworth | CNN More than 360 elephants have died in mysterious ...

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 ...

Botswana will auction licences on Friday to hunt a total of 70 elephants in seven districts, the first such hunting to take place since President Mokgweetsi Masisi lifted a five-year ban on big game ...

Botswana held elephant hunting auctions on Friday after lifting the ban on hunting the animals last year. Audrey Delsink, wildlife director for Humane Society International/Africa, told CBS News "the ...