As world leaders gather in London on February 13 to attend a summit—hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and attended by Prince Charles and Prince William—to confront the escalating poaching ...

Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant ivory and products from 2021 as the government tightens its campaign against illegal wildlife trade. The ...

In response to the CITES committee decision to reject all listing proposals to change protections for African elephants, WWF issued a statement from Paul De Ornellas, Senior Policy Advisor: “The ...

A years-in-the-making ivory ban went into effect in the U.K. today, making the selling of items carved from elephant tusks punishable by hefty fines and jail sentences. But that didn’t stop dealers ...

Some African countries with elephant populations say they want to lift an international ban on ivory trading and culling elephant herds. Representatives meeting at the Convention on International ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it would enact a near-total ban on the trade of commercial elephant ivory in the United States. The service completed its rulemaking process under ...

WWF lauds Singapore’s move for a total ivory ban; recommends additional measures to make it the world’s most robust one. 29th November 2018, SINGAPORE – The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has ...

(WTNH) — Human Society of the United States urges legislators to propose a bill that bans the intrastate sale of elephant ivory and parts from other endangered animals. This has come to the forefront ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The price of ivory on Chinese markets has slumped by two-thirds since 2014 as Beijing rolls out a ban on trade in elephant tusks, but illegal markets in neighboring countries are ...

Online auctioneer eBay will ban all international trading of elephant ivory on its sites, the company said on Tuesday in a move welcomed by an animal welfare group. An eBay representative said the ...

Hunters find the ancient tusks clustered on sandbars near the Arctic Ocean, carried there by spring melt waters flowing from the Siberian tundra. A pair of them, dried, polished and elegantly mounted ...