Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die-off: toxic bacteria in their watering holes.

A calf struggles neck-high in the stew-like mud, kicking frantically to make its way across the mire. Around 38,000 livestock depend on the waters of Lake Ngami in northern Botswana, but the animals - ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the ...