Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Playful 7-year-old Thinuli loved accompanying her father to his chena fields in a remote village in Hambantota, in Sri ...

Asian elephant Nhi Linh (foreground) is pregnant and due to give birth between mid-January and early March 2026 at the ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his capacity as Minister of Finance, presented the 2026 budget to Parliament on the ...

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Wildlife SOS, a global wildlife conservation and welfare organization dedicated to providing specialized veterinary care and ...

Namibian desert elephants fear humans, but drought forces them to seek water near settlements. Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters ...

A new study has revealed that elephants aren't afraid of drones, as was previously thought. Their surprisingly calm response ...

They say an elephant never forgets—and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones. Once seen as a source of alarm, drones ...

I’m always leery of claims that humans are uniquely exceptional, that we are better than nonhuman animals (animals) at dealing with the demands of our daily lives, that we are more highly evolved, ...

Pointing at something is one of those human universals that we do without thinking. We start showing infants objects by pointing very early, and when they get it—when they look at what we’re ...