Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo were arrested outside of Seattle last week on charges that they shipped ivory and white rhinoceros horn to the United States and had plans to send more, ...

PHOENIX – The Phoenix Zoo was selected alongside two other zoos to host an event that is aimed at raising awareness and reducing the demand of illegal ivory products. The Toss the Tusk event will ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil With a demand for exotic felines on the rise, often driven ...

* U.N. wildlife conference reaffirms elephant trade ban * Rejects one-off ivory sales by Tanzania, Zambia By Regan Doherty DOHA, March 22 (Reuters) - A U.N. wildlife conference rejected on Monday ...

Massive quantities of African ivory are being laundered through shops in Thailand and fuelling the elephant poaching crisis, conservation group WWF says. The organization today is launching a global ...

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 ...

Around 250 live Asian Elephants have been smuggled from Myanmar in the past decade, mostly destined for “elephant trekking” tourism activities in neighbouring Thailand, a new report by the wildlife ...

In recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort to protect dwindling elephant populations. Many countries have stringent controls on the trade of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The fate of elephants, rhinoceroses and other ...