Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters with the giant mammals frequently end in tragedies. Elephants are being shot, and their ...

While setting up his camera to film a herd of elephants, Bob Poole heard the animals begin to make loud noises, and knew the moment he was waiting for had arrived. The Emmy Award-winning ...

PALMWAY, Namibia – Fresh dung. Tracks in the sand of the Namib Desert. The black rhinoceros can’t be far away. Wildlife rangers Stefanus Ganuseb, 42, and Fritz Hoeb, 45, are patrolling on foot, ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - About a fifth of Mali's rare desert elephants have been killed this year as ivory poachers exploit a security vacuum in the country's north, the United Nations said on Thursday. At ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Mali's elephants, one of just two remaining desert herds in the world, will be gone in three years unless the government does more to protect them, a conservation group said on ...

A desert matriarch leads her herd through The Hoanib, an ephemeral seasonal river in Namibia. Laura Manske: You’ve been filming elephants your entire adult life, ever since, at age 17, you became a ...

Sep 27, 2025 - Jan 30, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Add to Calendar 27-09-2025 11:00 30-01-2026 12:00 America/Toronto IMAX Elephants: Giants of the Desert Get ready to experience an epic IMAX® 3D ...

Nick and Sally keep cool in the desert. / Elephants' trunks are just like hands. The Cat takes Nick and Sally to the Dizzle-dazzle Desert to learn how to keep cool. They learn that some animals are ...

Did you know that one of James Cameron’s informal titles is “National Geographic Explorer-at-Large”? It’s true – he’s an executive producer of Secrets of the Elephants (airing on Nat Geo, streaming on ...