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If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

Elephants have experienced vast population declines in recent years. The risks for conflict between elephants and humans could increase in the future due to climate change and other human-caused ...

A man has been trampled to death by an elephant only three years after surviving an attack from a hyena. Mzee Musili Musembi, a 72-year-old father of six from Ilikoni village in Kenya's Kibwezi East ...

THE urgent need to protect the Asian elephant, a keystone species that symbolises the balance of tropical ecosystems, was reaffirmed at the 2025 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

At the northern tip of Sumatra, villagers deal with herds of elephants entering their villages and eating their crops. Incidents of human-wildlife conflict have intensified as more of the elephants’ ...

In Indonesia’s Aceh province, farmers are installing electrified fences to protect their crops from elephants, whose forest habitats are continually shrinking. Farmers can face economic disaster if a ...