The UK’s Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge from antiques dealers trying to reverse the country’s near-total ban on ivory trading. The Ivory Act passed into law in December 2018 amid ...

Illegal carved ivory (photograph by Bill Butcher, via U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Northeast Region) These episodes mark the first time there’s been public destruction of ivory in non-African ...

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As world leaders gather in London on February 13 to attend a summit—hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and attended by Prince Charles and Prince William—to confront the escalating poaching ...

Rep. David Michel, left, co-chair of the Animal advocacy caucus, Annie Hornish, Whitney Teamus and Kathryn Kullberg, senior members of the Humane Society of the United States, at a press conference ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress hosted a ceremony this afternoon at the ...

A rising middle class in Asia, where ivory is highly valued and symbolizes wealth, means a growing number of people can afford ivory products. This fuels a race for ever increasing supplies of raw ...

Cambridge, UK, 10th November 2009—The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the ...

The European Union (EU) has stepped up its restrictions on the ivory trade, which lawmakers hope will curb poaching practices as several species of elephant become increasingly endangered. Set to go ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Illegal ivory, seized as part of a statewide crackdown, is now on display at the New York State Museum. The ivory was taken as part of a three-year operation launched by the ...

New genetic evidence confirms that ivory poaching in Africa involves only a few powerful players who consolidate the goods for illegal trade abroad. robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo Behind every ...

Officials said the DRI’s Nagpur unit, supervised by the Mumbai zonal unit, seized 4.05kg of Indian elephant tusks from the ...