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The US-based environmental organisation WildAid estimates that more than 30,000 elephants are killed every year in Africa for their tusks. The ivory is often carved into ornaments and jewellery ...

By the end of this year, all ivory sales will be banned in this country, a development that just might save the elephant from its biggest enemy: human poachers. From The Economist: Already, the price ...

Two Kenyans have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for unlawfully possessing four elephant tusks weighing 24.9 kilograms ... The two were intercepted while transporting the ivory on a ...

New England sailors in the 19th century carved ivory whales’ teeth to pass the time on long sea voyages between whale hunts. Their scribed images were done with sharpened sail needles and brought to ...

To test the theory further, researchers may turn to modern elephants. By analyzing how tusks break during natural behavior, like fights, they can compare those patterns with the ivory from Ukraine.

Harambee Stars will take on the Ivory Coast in a crucial World Cup qualifier on Tuesday but the Elephants have five key players whom Engin Firat’s men must stop to have any chance. Harambee Stars face ...

Traders might claim elephant ivory is mammoth ivory to ... especially if the ivory had been carved into an ornament, he said. It was also not practical to ask for a product to be sawn in half ...