An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is saddened to announce the passing of its oldest Asian elephant, Rex, who was humanely euthanized on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Rex, approximately 57 ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

WHICH ACTUALLY, THESE ANIMALS TYPICALLY LIVE TO ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD. SO HE LIVED A GOOD, LONG LIFE. HE WAS BROUGHT TO OKC IN 2011 FROM CANADA AS PART OF A SURVIVAL PLAN TO HELP BREED AND PROTECT ASIAN ...

Fifteen-year-old Luk Chai is the first of nine Asian elephants to be relocated from Melbourne Zoo in the city’s inner-north to Werribee Open Range Zoo, about 40 kilometres away in Melbourne’s ...

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden announced the passing of Rex, its oldest Asian elephant, who was humanely euthanized on January 14, 2025, due to declining health from age-related issues.

Colorado’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that five elderly elephants don’t have legal ... A New York court reached a similar decision over an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy ...

EIA documented the ongoing illegal transnational trade in totoaba swim bladders on social media platforms in our 2024 report, ...

Their tusks can grow to 8 feet (2.5 m) long and weigh up to 100 lbs. (45 kg). African elephants have 4 molars that are a foot (30 cm) long and weigh 11 pounds (5 kg) each! Baby African elephants stand ...

Nanak Kakwani is a professor at the University of New South Wales.

The district court did note, however, that the elephants likely were exposed to poor conditions and inadequately sized enclosures, but said the Nonhuman Rights Project simply has no standing under ...