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 ...

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 ...