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Ernita, farmer and member of women’s group Perbani, grows citrus trees on the perimeter of her oil palm farm, on the buffer zone of Tesso Nilo National Park, to drive away elephants. Image by Suryadi/Mongabay Indonesia.

How women farmers are helping elephants and forests in a Sumatran national park

Suryadi, Yenni Kwok 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Thermal imagery captured by a drone used by a ranger unit in Amboseli. Image courtesy of Big Life Foundation.

Thermal drones deployed in Kenya’s Amboseli Park to tackle human-elephant conflict

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Aug 2026
Vinod Rishi

Vinod Rishi helped give India’s elephants room to roam

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2026

Kenya investigates mysterious deaths of 15 elephants in Amboseli

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026
Rothschild's giraffes at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The Tilenga and Kingfisher fields lie close to the park. Image by Daryona via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK court

Elodie Toto 8 Jul 2026

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

David Brown 11 Jun 2026
Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania. Image by sama093 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Huge ivory bust raises questions about follow-up investigations in Tanzania

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Ivonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mongabay Africa’s most-read stories so far in 2026

Mongabay.org 5 Jun 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Malawi in 2006. Image by st georges via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2026
African savanna elephants are endangered, after years of poaching for their ivory, decimated their numbers. Now, their habitats are fast-shrinking due to human activities.

Trump called trophy hunting a “horror show,” but permitted 300-plus elephant trophy imports in 2025

Spoorthy Raman 18 May 2026
ount Elgon, Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades

Benjamin Jumbe 18 May 2026
Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife

Ryan Truscott 15 May 2026
Banner image: Farmers Anna Zimba and her husband Phaniso Zgambo stand in front of a cement granary. Around 30 such granaries have been built within the farming communities that are near to Kasungu National Park, offering greater protection to stored maize from hungry elephants. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

As elephants return in eastern Zambia, communities adapt to coexistence

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2026
Banner image of African elephants by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

African elephant genomes reveal ancient mixing — and modern pressures

David Brown 8 May 2026
The male elephant that recently died in Rangamati.

Rise in elephant killings reveals conservation gaps in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 7 May 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking conservation through elephants’ sense of time and memory

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026
Two suspects were arrested in Kenya in January with 110 kg of ivory. Image courtesy of Freeland.

After 110-kilo ivory bust, familiar questions over Kenya’s follow-through

Charles Mpaka 23 Apr 2026
Asian elephant in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Image by Tim Parkinson via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Elephants adjust what they eat in altered habitats, signaling growing pressure

David Brown 23 Apr 2026

Push for solar park in Sri Lanka’s elephant terrain raises concern

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Apr 2026
Ivonne Kienast at Dzanga Bai

Studying the world’s largest gathering of forest elephants with sound and field observation

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 19 Apr 2026
African elephant. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Living with wildlife, bearing the cost

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2026

Indonesia’s plan to rezone national park sparks backlash

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The little-known story of emerging ecotourism in the Central African Republic

David Akana 8 Apr 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A unique clearing in Central Africa draws elephants from the dense forests

David Akana 6 Apr 2026
Pangolins are one of the most in-demand wildlife in Asia, used in traditional chinese medicine preparations. After Chinese pangolins plummeted by about 90% in the 2000s, traffickers shifted to African species.

Asia now hub of growing illegal wildlife trade across 100+ countries, study shows

Spoorthy Raman 30 Mar 2026

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Charles Mpaka 28 Mar 2026

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