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.

According to AFP, via Phys.org, the new status report showed that 135,690 African forest elephants were alive in 2024. In ...

More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

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 ...

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 ...

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 term describes a bull elephant with tusks that weigh over 45 kilograms each. Tusks that size are so long that they scrape ...

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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