Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...

Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die-off: toxic bacteria in their watering holes.

Four years ago, 350 elephants died near Botswana's Okavango Delta, but the cause of their deaths was a mystery. It turns out that blue-green algae fatally poisoned them. All the elephants died between ...

If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning ...

Toxins produced by bacteria found in water have been blamed for hundreds of mysterious elephants deaths in Botswana. A news conference on Monday (September 21) heard that the number of dead elephants ...

The president of Botswana, home to the world’s largest elephant population, has threatened to send 20,000 of the giant living land mammals to Germany to "roam free" amid a feud over trophy hunting.

Botswana should lift its four-year ban on big game hunting and also allow the canning of elephant meat for pet food, Cabinet ministers in the southern African nation have recommended. Botswana should ...

Officials have said that they have confirmed 280 elephant deaths in the country and that they are looking into additional reports of fatalities Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human ...

[vemba-video id=”world/2020/07/02/botswana-elephants-mystery-mckenzie-vpx.cnn”] By Julia Hollingsworth | CNN More than 360 elephants have died in mysterious ...

Botswana held elephant hunting auctions on Friday after lifting the ban on hunting the animals last year. Audrey Delsink, wildlife director for Humane Society International/Africa, told CBS News "the ...

Hundreds of elephants are suddenly dying in Botswana, in circumstances that conservationists are struggling to explain. Mark Hiley, co-founder of UK-based charity National Park Rescue, told Business ...

Debora Patta is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in Johannesburg. Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Edward R.