(FOX NEWS)- Nearly 90 elephants have been found dead in Botswana -- the last safe place for the endangered animals -- in the wake of the president’s decision in May to disarm its anti-poaching unit. A ...

Almost 90 elephant carcasses have been found during a survey in northern Botswana, revealing "unprecedented" levels of poaching in the country, the conservation group carrying out the study has said.

Botswana, long considered a safe haven for elephants in Africa, has "a significant elephant-poaching problem," a conservationist group that carried out an aerial wildlife survey in the country said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Botswana's elephants are literally dropping dead. Hundreds of elephant carcasses have been found scattered across a remote, narrow ...

Nine Botswana rhinos have been poached since April, the government said Wednesday, an unprecedented rate of one per month that could see rhinos wiped out in the southern African country by 2021. The ...

FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday Jan.14, 2006, a 4-year old Female black Rhino, runs after it was darted at Nairobi National Park. A Kenyan wildlife official on Friday, July 13, 2018 says ...