Beijing (CNN)When Li Chunke started carving ivory in 1964, the number of elephants in Africa was still on the rise. Demand for ivory in China was practically non-existent and tusks could be bought ...

The history of ivory carving goes back to the most remote antiquity. Centuries before the Christian era we can point to examples in the days of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt.

China officially sanctions 36 ivory-carving workshops. They are supposed to use mainly ivory purchased in 2008, when limited sales from existing global stockpiles were allowed. All ivory sold ...

It is not easy to locate the once-booming Beijing Ivory Carving Factory. Its gate now is only wide enough for two or three people to walk through abreast. And there is no signboard. And the whole ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk ... "The Lady with the Hood," this prehistoric carving of a woman is prized for both its ...

China is closing 67 of its licensed ivory facilities, including 12 of its 35 ivory carving factories and several dozen of its more than 130 ivory retailers, according to a notice from the country ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK ...

Ivory isn't controversial in Alaska ... "It can be a huge part of a family's income — whether it's an $80 carving or an $8,000 carving," Bahnke says. "When our communities are already living ...

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the missing piece of an ice age carving deep in a cave. But the new addition of the ivory carving, originally thought to depict a ...

London’s V&A museum is seeking donations to purchase a fine ivory carving that is likely to have been made in York, in North Yorkshire, and which the museum characterizes as “one of the finest ...

The palm-sized carving depicts a Neolithic woman wearing ... What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the ...