NAIROBI — Tanzanian authorities are keen on issuing more hunting permits despite mounting international pressure for the country to ban elephant trophy hunting in the areas surrounding its border with ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya. About 2,000 elephants, ...

Population drops by 60% in just five years as ivory poaching surges Tanzania's elephant population has suffered a catastrophic decline in recent years, with numbers plummeting from an estimated ...

The Tanzania government, in collaboration with the International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) of the United States of America and the United Nations Development Program, has organized a speci ...

The country said its rhino population has jumped from 15 in 2014 to 167, and the number of elephants has gone from 43,330 to more than 60,000 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – The sharp decline of the elephant population in Tanzania, most likely due to poaching, is catastrophic, a wildlife conservation group said Tuesday. The Tanzanian government on Monday ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. WildlifeDirect Chief Executive Paula Kahumbu. [File, Standard] Elephants in the Amboseli ...

His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania on Wednesday rejected findings by conservationists who said elephants could disappear from a reserve there within six years due to "industrial scale" poaching, ...

Hamilton, who pioneered new understandings of African elephants and made protecting the giant pachyderms a life-long passion, ...

DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania has seized ivory tusks equivalent to killing at least 117 elephants, its tourism minister said, part of its drive to stamp out organized criminal networks involved in years of ...