As a landmark ban on domestic ivory trade comes into effect in China at the end of this month, TRAFFIC and WWF surveys found that the ban has widespread support from a majority of consumers surveyed ...

The U.S. government has committed to publicly destroying six tons of African and Asian elephant ivory, all of it confiscated within national borders. The ivory will be crushed at Rocky Mountain ...

* Illegal factory closed, 41 people arrested * Rhino poaching hit 15-yr high in 2009, according to WWF * Ivory demand in Asia encouraging poachers PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Police seized $1 million ...

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 ...