A joint operation by the Special Wildlife Crime Unit and the Uganda Police Force has led to the arrest of a suspected ivory trafficker and the recovery of 154 kilograms of raw elephant ivory in ...

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 ...

Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the carvings were discovered in a package imported from Austria.

Wildlife inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized five elephant ivory carvings at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Adds reactions) By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent THE HAGUE, June 14 (Reuters) - A U.N. wildlife conference extended a 1989 ban on African elephant ivory exports on Thursday by nine years, ...