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 ...

If the male is killed—shot by poachers for his casque, for example—the rest of the family will likely die. Softer than ivory and easily carved, hornbill casques are in high demand in Asia ...

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 ...

There are just 700,000 elephants left in the wild. Ivory poachers kill 30,000 a year. Kenya’s rhinoceros guards are well armed and well equipped. That generally isn’t true of the small ...

More than 100 rangers are killed each year because they stand between the elephants and the poachers. Nearly every African country with elephant populations has been hit. INTERPOL has acknowledged the ...

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah woke up this New Year’s Day to a new reality; that its critically endangered Borneo Pygmy elephants are being hunted for their ivory. In the space of just two months ...

"The scale of elephant poaching is by far the largest I have ... pace of about 30,000 elephants a year to meet demand for ivory in Asia, where tusks sell for around $1,000 (864 euros) a kilo ...