This admittedly graphic picture was attached to an email last night, in which a New York-based conservationist passed on a story published yesterday evening in the reputable New York Times, making ser ...

But Mathieu Eckel, head of the park’s anti-poaching unit, knows that is quickly changing. For the past year, Eckel has been gathering evidence of Chinese involvement in ivory poaching, ...

China, once the world’s largest consumer of ivory, has seen two years of diminishing domestic demand since a nationwide ban was imposed in 2017 — but outbound travelers are showing more interest in ...

Tanzanian authorities have arrested one of the country’s most notorious alleged ivory traffickers, the so-called "Queen of Ivory." Yang Feng Glan, 66, is charged with smuggling and trafficking ...

Tanzania on Friday denied allegations by a campaign group that Chinese officials smuggled out large amounts of illegal ivory during a state visit by President Xi Jinping last year.

So much illegal ivory ends up in China that more than half of all large-scale seizures (any above 800 kg) occur within its borders. From 2009 to 2011, this totaled 29,000 kg, according to data ...

Q I’m wondering if the ivory gods you are writing about are related to the ones I am attaching here. My son brought them from China in the 1980s. A Your figures represent the Eight Chinese ...

A Tanzanian court has sentenced Yang Fenglan, a Chinese national dubbed the “Queen of Ivory,” to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 African elephants over several years.

Current demand for ivory appears to have stabilized in China, with some minor fluctuation, following the immediate and dramatic drop after implementation of China’s ban at the end of 2017. The annual ...