What it tells us about the past: Posed as if leaping through the air, this carved ivory dog opens ... is made from elephant ivory. It is 7.2 inches (18.2 centimeters) long from nose to toes ...

Despite the strict vigilance, elephant tusks are being illegally ... there is a demand only for intricately carved artefacts made of ivory, not for raw ivory," says H V Girish, former head of ...

Three persons, including a woman, who went to sell three pieces of carved ivory were arrested by the Crime Branch of the Kandy Police at Dalada Street in Kandy. The Police said that the group was ...

Steven Hirsch Through Merces, Hu, 45, of Flushing, Queens, and Wu, 33, of Great Neck, advertised and sold elephant ivory carvings, including carved tusks, evading detection by advertising their ...

a triad of elephant ivory figurines for $2,640 and a carved elephant tusk for $31,950. The elephant ivory rosary sold by Merces Gallery Manhattan District Attorney's Office The word “ivory ...

Sometimes the animals' ivory is sold on the black market as elephant ivory. Other times, however, it gets carved into the form of figurines or other products, then fraudulently sold through ...

Rebecca Shepherd receives funding from EPSRC and the FCDO. In recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort to protect dwindling elephant ...

The nut is then polished and carved and ... bright green tagua necklace. "In one year, one tagua palm can produce as much tagua (or vegetable ivory) as the average African elephant can do in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After this month’s ice storm damaged millions of trees in Austin, one resident is turning her destroyed tree into a work of art. For 32 years, Austin resident Deborah Alexander ...

Precious objects made of ostrich eggshells, elaborately painted walls, furniture inlaid with carved hippopotamus and elephant ivory: Welcome to palace life in ancient Assyria. More aptly ...

a 34.50 cm-long and 8 cm-wide carved ivory piece was recovered from it," an official said. "Based on a tip-off that some persons were coming to Shivaji Chowk at Kalwa to sell an elephant tusk ...