Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, ...

2 of 7 — Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when ...

It’s the elephant in the room. Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and ...

San Francisco prosecutors began the trial of Keonte Gathron by claiming that he was in the middle of a crime spree when he allegedly attacked Yik Oi Huang at a Visitacion Valley park. Learn which ...

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 ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell apart ...

According to a police and court documents, the suspects—Brandson Njunga, the senior official for Amitofo aged 44, of ...

A fed-up mamma elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to its babies in Botswana’s wetlands and trampled a blundering woman, nearly drowning her, wild footage shows. A ...

The International Fund for Animal Welfare released a report today saying that eBay is continuing to allow consumers to bid on elephant ivory in violation of eBay’s own policies. EBay auctions are ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After being tranquilized and loaded onto trucks with cranes, elephants that have been squeezed out of their traditional habitat in Ivory Coast are being relocated by ...