Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, ...

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Following the announcement of China's landmark 2017 ban on domestic sales of elephant Ivory, WWF seized the opportunity to close ivory markets in Asia and reduce consumer demand for ivory products in ...

The buying and selling of illegal elephant ivory is a major problem online, and even sites like eBay appear to be unable to stop it. In a new research effort, a large number of listings for elephant ...

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 corrupt ...

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 Hu and ...

A Kenyan man has been extradited to Manhattan to face federal charges of trafficking rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory and heroin, prosecutors said Monday. A pile of ivory tusks Mansur Mohamed Surur, ...

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DAKAR, Senegal — After being tranquilized and loaded onto trucks with cranes, elephants that have been squeezed out of their traditional habitat in Ivory Coast are being relocated by conservationists ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. Researchers used analysis of ...