A Miami art dealer sentenced to 51 months in prison over a decadelong scheme to smuggle expensive sculptures containing ivory ...

In the article beginning on page 6, we discuss the unrelenting slaughter of African elephants for their ivory. In the United States, import of African elephant ivory has been prohibited—via the ...

Thailand allows internal trading of ivory from domesticated Asian elephants, and smuggled African ivory finds its way into the mix. Thailand has a small, natural population of Asian elephants ...

An expansive African ivory trade flourished in the 15th through 19th century, but they continued to be a source for popular luxury items well into the 20th century. Elephant ivory was used for ...

The consignment was declared as products for factory use, but upon examination by officers of the Ports and Maritime Command was found to contain African elephant ivory, concealed by stones. A 66-year ...

Two suspects who were ferrying 15 pieces of elephant tusks escaped and abandoned the cargo as security agents approached ...

CITES, established to regulate and restrict wildlife trade to prevent overexploitation, imposed a ban on the commercial trade of African elephant ivory in 1989 due to significant declines in ...

African elephants exist in about 40 range states, while their Asian counterparts occupy about 13 range states. Ivory is one of the most sort-after items worldwide. In Asia, it is revered as a ...

A suspect who was ferrying 15 pieces of elephant tusks was arrested hours after he and an accomplice escaped and abandoned ...

The density of dentin in elephant tusks is why elephant ivory is more sought after than ... There are two broad species of elephants, the African and Asian elephants. Both sexes of African ...