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It's the largest seizure of elephant ivory in Singapore to date. LONDON -- Authorities in Singapore have seized a record 8.8 metric tons of ivory that is believed to have come from nearly 300 ...
The elephant tusks, the largest seizure of ivory in Singapore, was valued at $12.9 million. The pangolin scales, worth an estimated total of $35.7 million, marked the city-state’s third such ...
Singapore said Tuesday it confiscated 8.8 tonnes of elephant ivory in a record bust.. The city-state, often a stopover in the illegal wildlife trade, caught the haul in a container en route from ...
Singapore said on Tuesday it had seized 8.8 tonnes of elephant ivory, a record haul by authorities in the city-state, which conservation groups say is a transit point for the illegal wildlife trade.
It's been a disastrous year for elephants, perhaps the worst since ivory sales were banned in 1989 to save the world's largest land animals from extinction, the wildlife trade monitoring network ...
Elephant ivory-handled canes for sale offer by the Natucket Antiques Depot at the New Bedford Whaling Museums's annual nautical antiques show, May 10, 2019. The Humane Society of the United States ...
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 ...
The Central African nation of Gabon on Wednesday burned all the elephant tusks and ivory ornaments it had in its stockpile -- an amount equivalent to 850 elephants -- so that smugglers, via ...
FILE - Elephant tusks are stacked in one of around a dozen pyres of ivory, in Nairobi National Park, Kenya on April 28, 2016. According to a report released on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, scientists ...
African elephant via Shutterstock Large seizures of illegal ivory from at least 2,500 elephants hit an all-time high during 2011, according to a top environmental group. At least 13 seizures have been ...