SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will ban the domestic trade in ivory from September 2021, the government said on Monday, shutting the door to an important end-market for poached elephant ivory. Demand ...

Demands from southern African countries to allow international trade in elephant ivory are extremely dangerous. Proponents are trying to create the impression that wild populations are growing to ...

In some countries, the idea of cherishing anything made of ivory has become repugnant, especially given that an elephant had to die — usually at the hands of poachers — before any elaborate carving of ...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a ...

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

Research from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has found that elephant ivory is still being sold on the online marketplace eBay, despite its 10-year-old policy banning the ...

* U.N. wildlife conference reaffirms elephant trade ban * Rejects one-off ivory sales by Tanzania, Zambia By Regan Doherty DOHA, March 22 (Reuters) - A U.N. wildlife conference rejected on Monday ...

(Kazuhiro NOGI/AFP/AFP) At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory.

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

Sellers are flouting eBay's self-imposed ban on the sale of elephant ivory by listing it under pseudonyms. An investigation by the BBC and legal experts found ivory objects were often listed as ...

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