Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

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 ...

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 continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants once roamed widely, both species exchanging genes throughout their range. However, as ...

Ivory has been a precious substance to human beings for centuries. It was used in ancient carving designs and jewellery in earlier times, and today it is part of modern debates over ethics and trade, ...

Elephants head towards hay delivered by Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) Ranger Josphat Wangigi (not seen) at the Amboseli National Park as feed-aid for forage deprived herbivores hard hit by drought on ...