It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Made of ...

The African elephant in the room: is there such a thing as a true carbon-neutral safari? "I suppose that in a spreadsheet it might be possible," says Lisa Scriven, general manager of Fair Trade ...

AFRICA: SURVEYING elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been ...

Speaking after a National People's Congress meet, Mr Wang said "making the dragon and elephant dance is the only right choice". He also said, "Supporting, instead of wearing each other down ...

The mother of a three-year-old boy who has been reunited with his toy elephant which had been sitting in the window of a butcher's shop has trumpeted the power of community for its swift return.

Four elephants had to be rescued from an overturned truck en route to the Samara Karoo Reserve in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Pictures: Supplied/ Video screengrab It was a sincere ...

It said the money is vital for patrols safeguarding rhinos in Africa, which have suffered a 94 percent population decline over the past century, as well as efforts to reduce human-elephant ...

Thus the Age of Empire yielded yet another “determined man with an injured ego”, as Sophy Roberts puts it in her absorbing new book, A Training School for Elephants. That injury made an ...

Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming. Those are the startling claims being made by ...

Military analysts have dubbed the present, which coincided with Russia's completing delivery of six fighter jets to Myanmar, as part of "elephant diplomacy" between two governments viewed dimly in ...

Model elephants are a safe solution that fits with religious principles Hindu devotees gather around an adorned robotic elephant, newly donated by the Voice for Asian Elephants Society (VFAES ...