Articles for National Elephant Center

African elephants could be extinct within 15 years because of the illegal ivory trade, conservation experts have warned.

A drought in Kenya has gotten so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom — the country's famed elephants which are dying as rivers dry up and grasslands shrivel in parched game reserves.

When Cleveland's trio of elephants return home in June 2011 after a three-year Columbus Zoo vacation, they will move into what could be the nation's largest green-certified animal exhibit.

Elephant poaching is rising in Kenya due to demand from an influx of Chinese workers in Africa and a one-off sale of ivory, a Kenyan conservationist said.

The call came from the zoo: how darin' are you? Would you like to wash an elephant?

The Central African Republic is the setting for the latest installment in the "Wild Sounds" series. Katy Payne is a biologist at Cornell University who has spent more than two decades interpreting the sounds elephants make. The ones you'll hear today, were recorded from a raised platform built in a part of the forest called a bai.

Farmers in Africa have managed to save their crops from elephants by using tiny bees to frighten some of the biggest animals on earth away.

Poachers seeking valuable ivory have killed up to 20 elephants across north Kenya in the last two weeks, locals said on Wednesday.

Like proud parents, Memphis Zoo staff waits expectantly for baby elephant

Affie the elephant, a beloved icon of the Brookfield Zoo, died last month, leaving this two-zoo town with only one elephant. For some people, that's one too many.

Experts meeting here call big group at Pittsburgh Zoo a model

$45 million elephant odyssey has all the bells and whistles

Poachers seeking ivory have killed five elephants in southeastern Kenya in the past six weeks, a government wildlife official said Monday.

Rising prices and strong demand for illegal ivory threaten the survival of Indochina's remaining elephants, according to a study by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

It's one of the most fabled talents in the animal world – elephants' ability to "talk" via rumbles in the earth.

The San Diego Zoo has begun a project to study the movement of elephant herds over a 50,000-square-mile area encompassing the African nations of Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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A count of elephant dung revealed a surprisingly large endangered elephant population — more than 600 — in Malaysia's biggest national park, researchers said Thursday.

They came through Kennedy Airport from Africa in boxes marked “African Wooden Handicraft” and “Wooden Statues.”

"I'm right in the middle of running an elephant. Can you call back in like half an hour?" Michael Rowe pocketed his cell phone and returned full attention to clicking off Jean's paces.