Watch Secrets of the Elephants, a four-part National Geographic series streaming on Disney+. “They’re all in trouble,” says Kenyan ecologist Paula Kahumbu. “All elephants are in major ...

Once considered exotic quarry and beasts of burden, elephants are now viewed as treasures in need of saving. Since the first elephant story was published in National Geographic in 1906, the ...

"I've never been bored photographing elephants," says National Geographic photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols, who has been documenting elephants in the rain forests and savannas of Africa for ...

African savanna elephants walk roam the Okavango Delta in Botswana, which has the highest population of the species. Photograph By BEVERLY JOUBERT, National Geographic Image Collection Since she ...

This major finding launched her career, and in the 46 years since, Poole, a National Geographic Explorer, has become one of the world’s experts in how African elephants behave and communicate.

says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer who studies the park’s pachyderms. But those numbers dwindled to triple digits following the civil war.