Of all 13,000 objects in the British Museum that are made of ivory, the Lewis Chessmen are perhaps the most revered. The exhibit is easy to spot among the numerous display cases in the museum’s ...
To reduce poaching of African elephants—some 33, 000 of them are lost every year—the United States put into effect an almost complete ban on selling and trading ivory across state lines beginning July ...
Elephant tusks are stacked in one of around a dozen pyres of ivory, in Nairobi National Park, Kenya on April 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) MANHATTAN (CN) — New York state governs antique ivory ...