PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 2008, voters approved a bond for the Oregon Zoo that said elephants would get “more humane conditions” and that “outdoor space will increase from 1.5 to six acres, adding ...

Antarctic Peninsula — Even by Antarctic standards, Elephant Island is hard to reach, which is why few people have ever set foot there. We traveled three days by ship from Argentina, crashed through ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Just over a month after the Oregon Zoo debuted its new Elephant Lands habitat, the Metro Council revealed it may call off plans for a possible offsite elephant sanctuary. The ...

A sensor used by researchers to capture low-frequency communication between elephants inadvertently recorded the audio of an elephant being gunned down by a poacher in Gabon, reports the Wildlife ...

Back at Elephant Hills, lunch is as good and plentiful as dinner the night before, and we're soon off on a canoe trip through the clear waters of a river fed by mountain streams. We pull the canoes ...

The Topeka Zoo will upgrade a closed-circuit camera system to allow it to remotely monitor animal activity at night after the death of a 35-year-old African elephant. Zoo director Brendan Wiley ...

Half a million human lives were lost and wildlife, too, was decimated to sustain troops. Rhino and elephants became valuable targets – rhino horn and ivory served as currency for arms among rebel ...