Women buried in a lavish grave 5,000 years ago wore beaded garments, suggesting they held positions of power. The beads could have taken 10 people seven months to make.

Further complicating the issue is that illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth ivory often end up in the same carving workshops in China. None of the tusk hunters I meet during an expedition to ...

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 ...

The density of dentin in elephant tusks is why elephant ivory is more sought after than other animal ivory. Baby elephants have baby tusks that often grow up to two inches before they lose them ...

Researchers in Isreal stumbled upon a remarkable discovery dating back over 6000 years. Unearthed from the depths of the ...

NHK has uncovered the extent of illegal transactions of ivory, which is still traded around the world despite an ...

With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, “ethical ivory” from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market in China. This rush on mammoth ivory is luring a fresh ...

Traders might claim elephant ivory is mammoth ivory to cover up illegal sales, according to global conservation body WWF. [3] About 20,000 elephants are killed every year for their tusks ...

Law enforcement officials in southern Cameroon have arrested poachers after being caught with close to one hundred elephant tusks, as well as the remains ... the illegal killing of elephants for ivory ...

Fifteen thousand elephant tusks, piled so high and so deep that ... All in all there are about 100 tonnes of ivory sitting behind three security doors with guards and an alarm system in a building ...

hinting at the revival of the ivory trade. Conservationists are concerned as the seizures indicate possible stockpile theft or fresh poaching. Despite the strict vigilance, elephant tusks are ...