Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species. Derived from animal tusks and teeth, it's denser and smoother than bone, ...

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, ...

The ivory trade results in too many elephants getting slaughtered for nothing. Kill them, take off the tusks and let the rest rot. A horrible repulsive wasteful practice. And Zimbabwe wants to make a ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

China is fuelling the rising demand worldwide for ivory and increased elephant poaching in Sri Lanka is probably a reflection of this, said the spokesman for a global wildlife trade monitoring network ...

A Zimbabwe National Parks official holds an elephant tusk during a tour of the ivory stockpiles in Harare, on May, 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe has ...

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 ...

Sellers are flouting eBay's self-imposed ban on the sale of elephant ivory by listing it under pseudonyms. An investigation by the BBC and legal experts found ivory objects were often listed as ...