More than 100 elephants have died in Botswana in the past two months partly because of a suspected anthrax outbreak, the government said on Tuesday. "Preliminary investigations suggest the elephants ...

The reintroduction of elephant trophy hunting in Botswana in 2019, following a five-year moratorium, is likely severely depleting the number of large, older bulls, according to a recent report. This ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop means hoping these "gentle giants" don't wander through and cause damage ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses — 275 — found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent ...

As powerful as they are and as regal and imperious as they may seem, elephants are affectionate animals with fun-loving, playful sides. When acclimated to human presence in supportive settings like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four years ago, 350 elephants died near Botswana's Okavango Delta, but the cause of their deaths was a mystery. It turns out that ...

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 ...

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Tourists on a canoe safari in Botswana were lucky to survive a terrifying attack by a raging bull elephant that was caught on video in the Okavango Delta. Two couples in separate canoes were being ...