Q I’m wondering if the ivory gods you are writing about are related to the ones I am attaching here. My son brought them from China in the 1980s. A Your figures represent the Eight Chinese ...

Demand for ivory in China was practically non-existent and tusks could be bought for under $7 a kilogram. Today, this figure is closer to $1,100 -- according to research by Save the Elephants.

The legal importation of mammoth ivory, which comes from creatures that vanished more than 3,600 years ago, has skyrocketed in China as dealers and carvers seek a substitute to meet the demand.

He said it was smuggled ivory, 57cm (22 inches) long, weighing 2.7kg (6 pounds), the asking price 77,000 Chinese yuan ($12,700; £7,600). Image caption, China's crackdown has driven the ivory ...

BEIJING – China has announced a one-year suspension on imports of carved ivory products from Africa, but conservationists said the largely symbolic move would do nothing in itself to stem the ...

Wood, jade, bone, ivory and horn were all used to fashion small figures, animals and practical objects. The earliest Chinese ivories go back 2,000 years, but most of the pieces that come to the market ...

Beginning in 2009, China has sold about five tons a year from its stockpile to licensed carving workshops, according to China’s top CITES official, Meng Xianlin.That means about 35 of the 73 ...