Giant clams can weigh as much as 500 pounds and look like ivory when carved. The shells, popular in China, are trafficked alongside elephant ivory and other ivory-like products.

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 ...

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 ...

Bush, who now lives in Elizabethtown, owns that jewelry now. “While his experience was pretty awful, as all war is, he was able to bring home a lovely carved ivory necklace,” she says.

China’s ivory ban marks a jumbo step forward for Paul Allen’s elephant campaign by Alan Boyle on December 31, 2016 at 2:39 pm Share 2 Reddit ...