* Central African forest elephants risk extinction * Asian demand, widespread logging, more weapons to blame * Forest elephant ivory especially prized By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, April 26 (Reuters) - ...

Six months after the killing of hundreds of elephants in a Cameroon national park, WWF today is releasing exclusive video material from the scene of the shocking event. Yaoundé, Cameroon – Six months ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Soldiers in Cameroon are losing the battle to save the last elephants in a remote frontier park from marauding horsemen believed to be invading from Sudan, the World Wildlife Fund ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Despite armed guards, Cameroon’s dwindling elephant population is being decimated by heavily armed gangs of international poachers, according to a top official of the World ...

YAOUNDE, May 24 (Reuters) - Wildlife officials in north Cameroon are struggling against a marauding herd of elephants that wandered into a regional capital this week after trampling through ...

Cameroon announced Friday it has mobilized its Special Forces units to prevent Sudanese poachers from entering its territory to hunt elephants for their ivory, in an operation it called “a first of ...

The Director of Forestry and Wildlife in Borno Ministry of Environment says guns and firecrackers are needed to scare the elephants away. A director in the ministry, Ayuba Peter, confirmed the ugly ...

The Director of Pest Control in Borno Ministry of Agriculture said he heard about the incident but was yet to get any official complaint from the affected area. Confirming the development to the News ...

Bakingili, Cameroon — Conflict between Cameroonians and local wildlife has led to street protests Saturday in the western village of Bakingili. Farmers and villagers say elephants are destroying their ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in a patch of Africa where they are more dangerously endangered than anywhere else on Earth, wildlife ...