Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

A UNSW researcher found using bees to scare elephants away from crops in Botswana raised more questions than answers.

Elephants are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet. They use long sticks to scratch their bodies when their trunks can't reach, use palm fronds as fly swatters, and recognize their ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...

Namibian desert elephants fear humans, but drought forces them to seek water near settlements. Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters ...

In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...