Cynthia Moss, founder of Amboseli Trust for Elephants, named the iconic bull elephant “Craig’ as part of her long-term ...

More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

The bull elephant who died Saturday was named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park, a protected area in southern Kenya ...

Craig was one of the last remaining elephants identified as super tuskers in Africa, but also became a symbol for ...

Kenya’s legendary super tusker Craig has died aged 54 at Amboseli National Park. The iconic elephant was a global symbol of ...

Traipsing through entire clearings of trees may sound like it does more harm than good, but every time elephants pluck their favorite fruit and trample trees, they’re contributing to a cleaner ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the authorities say. More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — ...

FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown African elephants. But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between those pachyderms’ domain and humanity ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers. Excerpt from “A Life Among Elephants,” ...