NEW YORK— A federal court in New York on Friday upheld the state’s ban on sales and in-store displays of elephant and mammoth ivory and rhino horn — rejecting claims that the ban was unconstitutional.

The siege is getting worse. African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than at any time since the worldwide ban on the ivory trade was adopted in 1989. Every 15 minutes, on average, an ...

Even Kenya’s President Daniel arap Moi, father of the global ivory ban, once gave Pope John Paul II an elephant tusk. Moi would later make a bigger symbolic gesture, setting fire to 13 tons of ...

In 2016 the Obama administration implemented a near ban on the domestic trade in elephant ivory. Although that regulation provided some exceptions, it virtually closed the U.S. ivory market as part of ...

Other vendors had replaced elephant ivory displays with mammoth ivory dug out of the Russian tundra. Apart from China's new ivory ban, the nation's economic slowdown has also resulted in fewer ...

Elephant ivory was used for piano keys well into the 1980s. And while significant inroads were taken near the end of the century to ban the trade, some countries have been slower to embrace the ...

The letter, published in The Washington Post, praised the administration for taking steps to implement a nearly complete ban on the elephant ivory trade in the United States. It was a… ...

31 March: Today marks the end of the first stage in implementing China’s ivory trade ban. On March 24, China's State Forestry Administration announced a list of 12 licensed ivory factories (out of 34) ...

A similar bill was signed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on August 12. The New York law bans the sale of elephant and mammoth ivory and rhinoceros horns, with limited exceptions for products such ...