How a legal ivory sale increased smuggling and elephant poaching The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008 ...

While "bovine bone" sales are legal, elephant ivory - which is heavier - is not ... company has strict policies in place to regulate the sale of animal products and promote the protection of ...

The new law, Assembly Bill 96, bans the importation or sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn ... Zak Smith, director of the council’s Wildlife Trade Initiative, said legal markets in California had helped ...

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley found that a one-time legal sale of 108 metric tons of stockpiled ivory that was intended to stifle elephant ...