Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Both federal and California laws apply to the transfer of ownership of ivory items, and California’s are more strict.

In a preprint paper shared via the arXiv, scientists in Slovenia announce that they managed to 3D print a tiny elephant ...

The slaughter for the ivory trade "is now the worst it has been in history," Wasser said last week. If you set aside Botswana, with a surplus of elephants, the killings actually run more than 9 ...

Despite movements in the late 1980s to ban the international trade in ivory to protect the elephant, poachers kill an average of 96 African elephants a day for their tusks. That's one every 15 ...

There’s a simple way to figure out how many elephants have been poached in a year. All you need to know is how much ivory was seized, and then do a little math. The average weight of a pair of ...

Conservationists battling illicit global trade in endangered species say at least 25,000 African elephants were slaughtered last year by criminal gangs eager to market the lucrative ivory from ...

An active market for illegal ivory Jesuses, prayer beads, and amulets fuels thousands of elephant deaths yearly, a new report finds.

Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year, and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that there is an urgent need to stop the killing.