Legal markets present significant enforcement and resource challenges to governments, including the need to better secure ...

Ivory trade is pushing elephants closer to extinction. The number of African elephants has dropped from 1.3 million in 1979 to 415,000 in 2016. The Asian elephant population is also shrinking ...

C.B. | Redwood City, California It has no intrinsic value ... The high point of the African ivory trade was from the 15th through the 19th centuries, and expanded to Europe, the Arab world ...

it would be simpler to clamp down on the illicit ivory trade if all ivory sales were banned, here and abroad. Certainly, given the stakes, consumers should avoid the purchase of any ivory, no matter ...

Since no inventory was ever made of global ivory ... Quantifying the illegal ivory trade is difficult too. Smugglers don’t file sales reports. To estimate smuggling activity, CITES uses ivory ...

With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion ... Importantly, these remote High Arctic hunting grounds were no empty polar wilderness; they would ...

"The ivory trade is barbaric," Feuer said in a statement. "It jeopardizes many animals that are at risk or on the verge of extinction. My office will vigorously prosecute cases alleging ivory sales ...

There are no more bugs ... By the year 700, trade between Borneo and China was flourishing, and in 1371 helmeted hornbill “ivory” was first recorded as reaching China as a tribute gift ...

The global ivory trade is fuelling the elephant poaching crisis, with around 55 African elephants killed for their tusks every day. Now, we're starting to see progress around the world to tackle this ...

Despite increased restrictions around the world, rules on ivory trade remain confusing and filled with loopholes, thus fueling continued demand. Before the end of the year, the European Commission ...

Kenya Wildlife Service ranger patrols are at this moment probing through that evening darkness to ensure that no poaching gangs kill our wildlife ... that addresses the global ivory trade and the ...