Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, ...

Woolly mammoths last roamed the Earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks—fashioned into sculptures, jewelry, and trinkets—have become hot commodities in China, where elephant ivory is now banned.

Following the announcement of China's landmark 2017 ban on domestic sales of elephant Ivory, WWF seized the opportunity to close ivory markets in Asia and reduce consumer demand for ivory products in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. Researchers used analysis of ...

The Massachusetts State House will hold a public hearing on Tuesday morning. An undercover investigation by animal welfare activists found that the sale of undocumented elephant ivory is still ...

The buying and selling of illegal elephant ivory is a major problem online, and even sites like eBay appear to be unable to stop it. In a new research effort, a large number of listings for elephant ...

The Central African nation of Gabon on Wednesday burned all the elephant tusks and ivory ornaments it had in its stockpile -- an amount equivalent to 850 elephants -- so that smugglers, via corrupt ...

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