Ivory and other wild contraband seized by authorities is being returned to the black market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Animal rights activists and conservationists disagree over the significance of including the historical symbol during King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday
Instituting new, legal means of trading ivory would create opportunities to put poachers and illegal trade syndicates out of business
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises worldwide, but only recently has the focus shifted to investigating its financial flows
Forest elephants are on the brink of extinction and savanna elephants are now classified as endangered
Interviews with offenders provide insight into the structure of illegal wildlife trade networks
China is the biggest market for ivory yet Chinese business people are funding the war on poaching
The outlet called Ivory Lane purportedly offered items including earrings and necklaces for sale and had a well-produced website
The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items
Research shows that legal sale of ivory increased smuggling by 71%.
The thinking behind the move was widely accepted at the time, and ‘has only been proved wrong in hindsight’ – researchers
Yahoo sold sold an estimated 12 tonnes of elephant tusks and fashioned pieces of ivory on its Japanese auction site
Officials who visited Tanzania with President Xi Jinping took advantage of the lack of security checks to buy large amounts of ivory, say activists.
Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce company that owns Play.com and Kobo, is the world’s biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat.
A Nairobi ivory bust – China’s first wildlife crime arrest – was part of a month-long, international anti-trafficking operation.
A 58-year-old woman has been arrested at OR Tambo International Airport in Gauteng for possession of 40kg of ivory.
Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth about $1.3-million that were being shipped from Kenya to Cambodia.
Two men pleaded guilty in a Kenyan court on Monday to illegally possessing 700kg of elephant tusks.
A tonne of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation against wildlife crime, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
Investigators say conservation officials lack the capacity to check if the right rhino has been shot.
