This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 ... SLAUGHTERING HUNDREDS OF ELEPHANTS—entire families—in one of the worst concentrated killings ...

15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... the international ban on trading elephant ivory and the search for alternatives ...

This story was originally published in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The people in ... that their names be withheld. Elephants kept appearing in wrinkled herds, loitering ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... him when he and his crew were stranded on Elephant Island in 1916. After polar ice crushed ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back ... past rows of shackled elephants, their trunks swaying. I was here five hours before, when the ...

By opening trails that become channels, elephants add to the dynamism. This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Seen from space, high above Africa ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Fewer than 200 were ... the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sgt ... The greater region has lost thousands of elephants to poachers over the last two decades. The Akashinga ...