Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years, and the story of his ...

Field rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This trait is passed to offspring, dramatically increasing the ...

To be fair, Herzog turns every movie he makes into a rumination on dreams.

In southern Africa, a dead elephant with its face hacked away reveals the brutal reality of the ivory trade. What begins as the investigation of a poaching scene turns into a tense search for a second ...

African diplomats say reform of the UN’s most powerful body cannot proceed without ...

In South Africa’s Greater Kruger, Nkateko Mzimba walks the bush unarmed, protecting wildlife with nothing but resolve. At home in Hluvukani village, she trades her ranger uniform for chalk and song, ...

Bringing bushmeat into America is illegal due to potential food safety and ethical issues. We dive into the reasoning behind the ban on meat from wild animals.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

That visibility comes with scrutiny. Mammals are among the best-studied organisms on Earth - and among the most threatened.

Botswana confirms Moremi Game Reserve will reopen on 26 March 2026 after temporary flooding closed road access.

National Geographic's Ghost Elephants is a feature documentary chronicling the search for Africa's most elusive elephant.