Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years. From the air too the scattered bodies present a senseless ...

Despite the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) ban on ivory, poaching associated with its illegal trade has not prevented the suffering of elephants and is ...

Jerry Brown in October 2015, the amended law bars the purchase or sale of ivory products that come from hippopotamus teeth, the tusks of elephants, mammoths, mastodons, narwhals, walruses, warthogs ...

Yesterday, tonnes of ivory went up in smoke. It had happened before as part of the government effort to reduce poaching and conserve the elephant, an animal indigenous to Kenya, other Africa ...

Killing of elephants driven by the illegal ivory trade has reached crisis levels in Africa, new information released today says. Across Africa elephants are being driven into decline due to poaching ...

The global ivory trade is fueling the elephant poaching crisis, with around 55 African elephants killed for their tusks every day. Now, we're starting to see progress around the world to tackle this ...

Now Kony and his rebels appear to be engaging in elephant poaching and ivory smuggling to sustain their terrorist operations. The security implications of illegal wildlife trade extend far beyond ...

Savanna elephant populations declined by more than 50% over the last 75 years. Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory poaching and habitat loss and encroachment. “Forest elephants ...