Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo were arrested outside of Seattle last week on charges that they shipped ivory and white rhinoceros horn to the United States and had plans to send more, ...

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. International trade in elephant ...

PHOENIX – The Phoenix Zoo was selected alongside two other zoos to host an event that is aimed at raising awareness and reducing the demand of illegal ivory products. The Toss the Tusk event will ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil With a demand for exotic felines on the rise, often driven ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Around 250 live Asian Elephants have been smuggled from Myanmar in the past decade, mostly destined for “elephant trekking” tourism activities in neighbouring Thailand, a new report by the wildlife ...

* 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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The fate of elephants, rhinoceroses and other ...

Zambia and Tanzania are calling on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to downgrade the conservation status of elephants and allow ivory tradeAlexander Joe / AFP / ...

DOHA (Reuters) - A U.N. wildlife conference rejected Monday proposals by Tanzania and Zambia to relax a trade ban on elephants to allow a one-off sale of their ivory stockpiles. The 175-nation meeting ...