Two people who allegedly placed online ads to sell elephant ivory carvings are the first to be charged under wildlife trafficking laws passed by Pacific Northwest voters a few years ago. You may ...

SEA-TAC AIRPORT, Wash. - Nearly three-dozen intricately carved figurines, daggers, even tusks – all seized from a battered cardboard box at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Earlier this month U.S ...

Conservation groups on Friday welcomed China’s announcement of a one-year moratorium on imports of ivory carvings, many featuring religious images, but warned an outright ban was needed to halt a ...

A 40,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — A San Diego man accused of selling ivory carvings that could have commanded $100,000 on the black market was ordered by a judge to forfeit his entire collection, the San Diego ...

Despite an international ban on trade in ivory, elephants are still illegally hunted for their tusks. Up to 35,000 were killed for ivory in 2011 alone, in many cases to create religious artefacts.

Tantalising ivory fragments, carved in the half century before the Norman Conquest, reveal the outstanding skill of their Anglo-Saxon carvers. Dr Paul Williamson, from the Victoria and Albert Museum, ...