But the big profit is made in Asia. Thai Customs recently evaluated smuggled ivory as being worth $1,800 per kilogram—$18,000 per elephant—wholesale. The “street value” retail price of 10 kilograms of ...

“This is the best,” the Daxin Ivory Carving Factory’s Feng tells me, holding up a chunk of forest elephant tusk. Carvings made from forest elephant ivory sell out so quickly that customers ...

To test the theory further, researchers may turn to modern elephants. By analyzing how tusks break during natural behavior, ...

You can also import worked (carved) ivory acquired before Feb 4 ... The rules for importation of Asian elephant ivory are different still. (Confused yet?) Last September, Victor Gordon, the owner of ...

"But tribal tusks weren't necessarily elaborately carved." Beginning in the ... Ultimately, of course, the appetite for ivory spelled doom for Africa's elephant herds. In an attempt to curb ...

Traders might claim elephant ivory is mammoth ivory to ... especially if the ivory had been carved into an ornament, he said. It was also not practical to ask for a product to be sawn in half ...