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

It’s the elephant in the room. Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace ...

Market Forces. The international community banned the ivory trade in 1989, and for a while, it worked, stemming the drastic decline of the elephant population, which had dropped from 1.3 million ...

Hoping to discourage elephant poachers and consumers alike, U.S. officials pulverized more than a ton of confiscated "blood ivory" Friday in the middle of Times Square. Much of the ivory ...

Governments and businesses looking to crack down on the illegal ivory trade have a new tool in their hands, courtesy of WWF, TRAFFIC, and the CITES Secretariat. For the first time in more than two ...

A task force in the Democratic Republic of Congo seized about $3.5 million in illegal ivory, rhino horn and pangolin scales following the arrest of two suspects in the United States, authorities say.

Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces Ben Booth 2 / 2 ...

Woolly mammoths last roamed the Earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks—fashioned into sculptures, jewelry, and trinkets—have become hot commodities in China, where elephant ivory is now ...