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 ...

Approximately 30kg of ivory was seized from Tamil Nadu, hinting at the revival of the ivory trade. Conservationists are ...

The final tally of verifiable commerce (excluding Latin America results) was approximately $3.8 million in ads and nearly $450,000 in final sales. According to IFAW figures, the demand for ivory ...

A British ban on ivory sales is to be one of the toughest in the world, the environment secretary has said. Michael Gove said the sale of ivory of any age, with limited exceptions, will be banned ...

"We can start 2018 hopeful that elephants will be safer now that China has banned commercial ivory sales," he said. However, there is concern that Hong Kong is not covered by the new laws.

Current photos I’d seen of ivory Coptic crosses on sale beside ivory Islamic prayer beads in Cairo’s market now made more sense. Suddenly, recent ivory seizures on Zanzibar, an Islamic island ...

A ban on ivory sales in China, the world's largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, took effect on Sunday with wildlife activists calling it a vital step to reducing the slaughter of ...

Starting in 1973, Congress largely banned ivory sales through the federal Endangered Species Act, but has provided exceptions for goods that were less than 50% ivory.

California filed criminal charges Wednesday against three sellers of ivory merchandise – a first under a new state law barring the sale of such products, according to prosecutors. LOS ANGELES (CN) – ...

The new report, Illegal ivory sales in Egypt, published in the latest issue of the TRAFFIC Bulletin states “Egypt remains one of Africa’s largest markets for illegal ivory items,” adding “No ivory ...

Yahoo Japan is refusing to stop the sale of ivory on its site, despite concerns that it is facilitating a business blamed for the illegal slaughter of elephants. Even Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo ...