A typical forest elephant, which weighs 5,000 to 6,000 pounds and produces 1,000 or so pounds of edible meat, can earn a poacher up to $180 for the ivory and as much as $6,000 for the meat.

Zimbabwe has announced that dozens of its elephants will be killed to control the population size and the meat from the carcasses will be distributed to people. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife ...

BANGKOK (AP) – A new taste for eating elephant meat _ everything from trunks to sex organs _ has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species. Wildlife ...

“A lot of us are hearing for the first time that elephant meat can be eaten,” he added, and expecting poor families to eat this meat is “an insult.” ...

Zimbabwe will cull dozens of elephants and distribute the meat for consumption to ease the ballooning population of the animals, its wildlife authority said Tuesday.

The elephant meat was from a protected species in Thailand and was bound for Fresno, Calif. The 387 purses were in the baggage of a passenger from Nigeria.

When residents of Magenche, Kisii County, recently killed a cow elephant that had strayed from the Maasai Mara, not a single piece of the carcass could be seen within an hour.

The Stream The Stream, September 25, 2024: With Harvests Decimated by Drought, Zimbabwe and Namibia Will Turn to Elephant Meat by Christian Thorsberg September 25, 2024 ...