Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the face of steep population decline, the United States has moved to restrict the import of live African elephants and elephant ...

A disturbing sport has surged in popularity since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, according to a new study. The study prepared by the Center of Biological Diversity shows ...

Is hunting elephants the best way to save the species? That’s a question once again being raised in the conservation community after a recent ruling by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that will make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NAIROBI — Tanzanian authorities are keen on issuing more hunting permits despite mounting international pressure for the country ...

Conservationists have raised the alarm about the Botswana government’s decision to raise its annual trophy-hunting quota for elephants, reigniting the debate over how the country should manage the ...

Five bulls from the area around a Kenyan wildlife reserve have been shot and killed in Tanzania in recent months. The countries have very different conservation strategies. By Shola Lawal Reporting ...

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 ...

Polls show that 85 percent of the German and British publics support trophy import bans.In 2019, when Botswana lifted its own wildlife hunting ban, which had been in place since 2014, there was ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...