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 ...

Thai authorities recently dealt a major blow to the illegal ivory trade, seizing 169 kilograms — roughly 370 pounds — of smuggled ivory originating from Laos. Authorities recently interrupted an ivory ...

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Kenya, long at the forefront of efforts to shut the ivory trade down completely, last week torched thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns. Proposals for the meeting in Johannesburg were made ...

It was a Saturday morning at the Amitofo Care Centre, a boarding school for orphans and destitute children in Malawi, and Francis, 19, was playing football with his friends. He had lived at the school ...

Research has shown that conservation campaigns could turn the tide on the illegal ivory trade if they focused less on themes of ‘guilt’ and more on why people want to buy ivory in the first place.

Wildlife trafficking—the illegal killing of endangered animals and international trade in their parts—isn’t just a conservation problem. It’s a worldwide threat, one tied to global crime syndicates ...

Ivory has been a precious substance to human beings for centuries. It was used in ancient carving designs and jewellery in earlier times, and today it is part of modern debates over ethics and trade, ...

Introduction -- Africa and Ivory : An Ancient but Bloody and Brutal Trade -- The Nineteenth Century : One Hundred Years of Exploitation and Extermination -- The Ivory Trade and Criminalisation of ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders. It ...