The scheme began to unravel when the pair sold ivory products to an undercover state Department of Environmental Conservation officer on three separate occasions, including: a carved elephant tusk ...

Nearly 90 percent of mammoth ivory exported out of Siberia—estimated at about 60 tons a year—ends up in China, which is also the main destination for illegal elephant ivory. Poachers kill some ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Nineteen stores in six Connecticut counties were found illegally selling over 160 items carved from elephant ivory, according to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth Stable isotope analysis can tell apart ivory from mammoths dug up from the permafrost and modern elephants, closing a loophole for ...

Another 40 pounds of ivory and ivory products were subsequently seized at a Hollywood residence. In all, the ivory has an estimated value of $375,000--and potentially much more when carved or made ...

Booming global sales of ivory are driving the precipitous and accelerated decline of one of the world's largest, most revered mammals: the African elephant. Despite movements in the late 1980s to ...

The ban was introduced in 1989, when the elephant population was 600,000, which was less than half of what it was a decade before. Despite making it illegal to trade in ivory, there are only ...

Elephant ivory is still being sold on eBay despite the online marketplace introducing a ban more than a decade ago, researchers have found. Sellers are misrepresenting the materials used in ...