NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's president set fire Saturday to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed, in a dramatic statement by ...
Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...
A selection of elephant and mammoth tusk samples. Credit: Ben Booth A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the ...
Rebecca Shepherd receives funding from EPSRC and the FCDO. In recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort to protect dwindling elephant populations ...
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 ...
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