Elephants at the San Diego County Fair will continue to offer rides -- at least until 2014, directors for the fair decided Tuesday. Animal rights activists pleaded with the 22nd District Agricultural ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Elephant rides, which the state recognizes as having become a "polarizing topic," could face a series of new rules when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

We're sure you don't need to be told, but riding elephants is not good. A new report by World Animal Protection titled Taken For A Ride says that 3 in 4 elephants in tourist entertainment venues ...

My wife calls me “oppositional” as I leave to ride an elephant at the Santa Ana Zoo during an animal rights protest against elephant rides. She may be right. But not today. I’m on an investigative ...

Photograph: Shem Compion. Elephant-back safaris take place twice a day at Camp Jabulani. You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through ...

Editor’s Note: Carmel De Bedin is Hong Kong Director of Elephant Asia Rescue and Survival foundation (EARS), which supports ethical tourism initiatives throughout Asia and campaigns against animal ...

The Santa Ana Zoo is one of only a handful in the nation that still offer elephant rides. For more than 25 years, children — and some grown-ups — have turned out by the hundreds to ride on the back of ...

You don’t see this every day: an Asian elephant walking down a public street, carrying a couple atop its back, in a wedding procession onto the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and ...

You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through the open savanna of South Africa's Kapama Reserve, past giraffes and buffalo and rhinos ...