An undercover investigation into the trafficking of ivory from elephants and other wild animal parts has found the widespread ...

Pins, brooches and religious figurines. And two pairs of whole, raw tusks nearly seven feet long. All are made from or contain illegal elephant ivory. All were seized by law enforcement in the ...

Instead, the smuggled goods included more than a ton’s worth of carved animal figurines and ornaments — all made from the illicit trade of elephant ivory. Despite a worldwide ban on ivory ...

A Pa. House Bill is under consideration to stop the sale of at-risk animal parts in Pennsylvania. Under cover investigation ...

a set of elephant ivory rosary beads for $4,800 and three elephant ivory figurines for $2,640. The duo conducted auctions both on their website and LiveAuctioneers.com, prosecutors said.

If we can’t make the ivory trade model work here, it won’t work anywhere.” Elephants are in crisis, and everyone is scrambling to figure out how to save them from extinction. Demand for ...

At least 20,000 African elephants continue to be illegally killed each year for their ivory tusks ... musical instruments and figurines. It has a catalogue of properties that few other materials ...

Knowing the age of elephant tusks is important ... This makes it easier to test on jewelry or ivory figurines, he added. The technique complements another developed in 2004 that uses DNA from ...

it is “highly likely” that poachers killed at least 25,000 African elephants in 2011. The true figure may even be double that. Meanwhile, last year saw an estimated 34.7 tons of illegal ivory ...