"Must be rigorously questioned." Officials spark backlash with shocking rule change on elephant hunting: 'We are alarmed' ...

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are pushing back against a local government plan to allow culling and trophy hunting to ...

Botswana has scrapped its ban on elephant hunting, citing an increase in conflicts between elephants and humans during the five years the rule was in place. The southern African nation, which is home ...

Environment Minister Dion George's decision to delay trophy hunting quotas for black rhinos, elephants, and leopards ...

The global backlash against Botswana's decision to lift its elephant hunting ban on May 22 has been strong and swift. Tourists are already threatening to boycott the luxury safari destination -- ...

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. ”Twenty thousand elephants for Germany, this is not a joke ...

South Africa’s environment minister said he won’t immediately approve trophy hunting quotas for black rhinos, elephants and ...

With tusks that each weigh over 100 pounds and often scrape the ground, Africa’s last remaining “super tuskers” take center ...

Rural farming communities on the border between the southern African countries of Malawi and Zambia are seeking damages and threatening to sue an international animal conservation group over the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - If Spain's king had shot an elephant in Botswana during his ill-fated hunting excursion it would have been one of perhaps 150,000 that roam the vast southern African country, ...

Botswana on Wednesday lifted its ban on elephant hunting, saying the population had increased and farmers' livelihoods were being impacted, in a move set to trigger outrage from conservationists.