A new study suggests that as few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa. Researchers used analysis of DNA from seized ...

Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species ...

Explore the legacy of Craig the elephant, a symbol of wildlife conservation, and the challenges of emotional attachment to iconic animals.

Kampala: The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a state run conservation agency, has seized 10 pieces of raw elephant ivory weighing 154 kg after ...

A joint operation by the Special Wildlife Crime Unit and the Uganda Police Force has led to the arrest of a suspected ivory trafficker and the recovery of 154 kilograms of raw elephant ivory in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the carvings were discovered in a package imported from Austria.

Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, spent most of his career researching lizards. But at 3:00 a.m. one morning in 2016, he was browsing YouTube and came across a ...

Wildlife inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized five elephant ivory carvings at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta ...

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 ...