I have spent my life studying trees in the Kruger National Park. What I am seeing now troubles me deeply. While the elephant debate grows louder and more emotional, a quieter ecological collapse is ...

A single marula tree can provide up to 1.5 tons of fruit each season--as much as 90,000 fruits. That works well for the average elephant who needs to consume 6% of its own body weight each day and ...

In parts of Southern Africa, elephants engage in “hedging” by breaking off the branches of hardwood mopane trees, snapping their trunks in two or pushing them over. Consequently, large areas of mopane ...

ELEPHANTS are big, powerful and can be very dangerous – but they are not drunkards. Anecdotes about African elephants going on alcohol-fuelled rampages after eating the fermented fruit of the marula ...