But because carved mammoth ivory looks so much like elephant ivory, it’s only logical to keep regulatory tabs on it. The proposal, she said, was a “valid effort to say, ‘There’s a problem ...

The problem is, experts say, that there is often no way to determine how old ivory is or how long ago the elephant was killed, especially if the ivory has been carved or sculpted - thus it's ...

Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental group based in Nairobi, Kenya, recently accused Thailand of being Asia’s largest buyer of illegal African ivory, which is carved into Buddha statues, rings ...

China's pledge to shut down its ivory trade comes as welcome news to those fighting to save the elephants – including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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 ...

Victor Gordon’s illegal trade in elephant ivory was delivered a final, crushing blow Friday. U.S. officials who confiscated hundreds of carved ivory artworks from Gordon’s strange exotic store ...

Despite an international ban on trade in ivory, elephants are still illegally hunted for their tusks. Up to 35,000 were killed for ivory in 2011 alone, in many cases to create religious artefacts ...

The actress says 35,000 elephants are killed annually for ivory trade. Yet some in Congress try to thwart Obama’s push to crack down on trafficking ...

Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Thousands, Report Says Despite global ivory ban, tusks carved into Jesuses, prayer beads, amulets.