Safari guests in South Africa watched in awe recently as an elephant uprooted and toppled a fairly large tree. “Unparalleled strength. He made it look so easy,” Tim Prettejohn, a guide for Dulini ...

A viral video shows a lone elephant standing in front of a JCB excavator to prevent tree removal in its forest habitat, sparking widespread online debate over development versus wildlife protection.

New research finds that overall tree cover in the Kruger National Park is on the rise, although in localised areas, elephants and other forces are reducing large-tree cover.