So the major winner from Northern Ireland is sneakily placed behind the leaders to make a tilt at the Claret Jug. No, not that major winner. Or indeed the other one.

Government proposals to ban all wild animals from travelling circuses should be watered down to allow zebras, camels, reindeer and snakes to stay on the road, MPs have recommended.

The change in feeding behaviour had been a scientific mystery, as it occurred three million years before elephants evolved to have teeth better-suited to eating grass

Grieving elephants to feature in attempt to break taboo and explain subject to children

The Lord's Resistance Army has resorted to elephant poaching in order to fund its activities, according to human rights organisations.

John Walsh marks the demise of the writer who found comic gold in the world of Oxbridge

Members of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a militia run by the fugitive  warlord Joseph Kony, are killing elephants across Central Africa to raise funds, according to a report by watchdog organisations.

With no launch date in sight, company is set to be a costly ‘white  elephant’, say critics

More than 30,000 people signed an Independent petition calling for a ban

A baby elephant in India has been lifted out of a well after it fell down it and got trapped. After initial rescue attempts failed, a crane was used to break the side of the well and hoist the elephant out.

Gandhi’s problem is that he is starting from a very low base in his current bid to win public acceptability

The host nation for this weekend's global conservation gathering is called to account for its role in African elephant poaching

Brigitte Bardot will not have to emigrate to Russia after all. The actress and animal-lover, right, had threatened to leave France if the government pressed ahead with plans to destroy two TB-infected elephants in a Lyon zoo.

A council stands accused of using a £1.5bn regeneration scheme to cleanse one of Europe’s biggest housing estates of poor families after it emerged that just 79 of the 2,535 new homes on the site will be flats available to rent as social housing.