At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha ...

The UK’s Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge from antiques dealers trying to reverse the country’s near-total ban on ivory trading. The Ivory Act passed into law in December 2018 amid ...

One of the world’s top ivory-trade investigators, Esmond Bradley Martin, has been stabbed to death in Kenya, according to local and British media. Martin, an American who moved to Kenya in the 1970s, ...

The Massachusetts State House will hold a public hearing on Tuesday morning. An undercover investigation by animal welfare activists found that the sale of undocumented elephant ivory is still ...

The European Union (EU) has stepped up its restrictions on the ivory trade, which lawmakers hope will curb poaching practices as several species of elephant become increasingly endangered. Set to go ...

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International groups fighting the poaching of ivory accuse Sudanese officials of doing too little to stop a trade that is rapidly reducing the numbers of elephants in Africa. But in sprawling Sudanese ...

Advocates want more laws against it, protections for elephants in danger. — -- In an ongoing group effort to combat the illegal ivory trade, more than a ton of ivory was crushed in Central Park ...

Cambridge, UK, 10th November 2009—The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the ...

A series of undercover investigations by the NGO TRAFFIC over several years in five Central African countries has revealed a shift in the region from local markets for ivory to an ‘underground’ ...

China has shut its legal, domestic ivory markets and banned all commercial ivory trade. Conservationists have welcomed this ban, calling it “one of the most important days in the history of elephant ...

Almost a million elephants roamed Africa 25 years ago. Assessments of their population now vary but suggest there are fewer than half that many. The main reason for the decline is ivory. Despite a ...