A new study suggests that as few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa. Researchers used analysis of DNA from seized ...

Wildlife investigators with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife say they’ve uncovered what they suspect is a massive illegal animal-parts trafficking operation in Los Angeles County tied to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM)– Three hundred eighty-three ivory items from animals, including elephants, hippos, and whales, were seized from 60 ...

Somewhere in the borderlands of West Africa, a small herd of forest elephants feeds in a fragment of lowland rainforest ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to decimate elephant populations. An international ban exists on the ivory trade, and ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

Wildlife inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized five elephant ivory carvings at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The illegal carvings were found in a package ...

A new report issued under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) shows that illegal killing of elephants and illegal ivory trade continues to ...

Hunters find the ancient tusks clustered on sandbars near the Arctic Ocean, carried there by spring melt waters flowing from the Siberian tundra. A pair of them, dried, polished and elegantly mounted ...

Markets in the Central African Republic offer all the jungle's delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant. Hunters kill the elephants and cut off the ...