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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new results, reported in the Feb. 8 Current Biology, give insight into historical African elephant populations and ivory trade networks. For having been lost at sea for nearly 500 years, ...