Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis ...

He's thought to be 42 years old, and he spent 40 of those years in captivity. “I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of people and children witnessed and enjoyed Charley,” said Khalil.

Next up was the last captive elephant in South Africa. Charley, an aging 4-ton African elephant, had outlived his fellow elephants at a zoo in the capital, Pretoria, where he’d stayed for more ...

Charley, an aging 4-ton African elephant, enters his adaption enclosure to acclimatize, at the Shambala Private Game Reserve, South Africa, Aug. 19 after being transported from Pretoria's National ...

"It's a great message from South Africa that even an old elephant deserves a new chance,” he said. Khalil’s team has another elephant move in Pakistan planned for October.

Visitors watch Osh the elephant at the Oakland Zoo on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. Osh, the lone elephant remaining from a once thriving group of four at the Oakland Zoo, will head ...

Mkhaya, a seven-year-old elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, can rest easy knowing her family has her back. When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Monday, Mkhaya's herd wasted ...

If ever an elephant deserved to enjoy his twilight years, it's Charley. Captured as a young calf in western Zimbabwe in the 1980s and taken from his herd, he spent 16 years in a South African ...

"It's a great message from South Africa that even an old elephant deserves a new chance,” he said. Khalil’s team has another elephant move in Pakistan planned for October.

"It's a great message from South Africa that even an old elephant deserves a new chance,” he said. Khalil’s team has another elephant move in Pakistan planned for October.