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TODAY'S ELEPHANTS DON'T INTERBREED LIKE ANCIENT SPECIES
Today, the two kinds of living elephants in Africa... READ MORE›
LEADING IVORY TRADE INVESTIGATOR MURDERED IN KENYA
We have four suspects in custody, Nairobi Police Chief Japheth Koome said... READ MORE›
LEADING IVORY TRADE INVESTIGATOR MURDERED IN KENYA
He was one of the most important people at the forefront of exposing the ivory trade, addressing the traffickers and dealers themselves, Kahumbu said... READ MORE›
US INVESTIGATOR OF IVORY, RHINO HORN TRADE KILLED IN KENYA
Martin led investigations into the illegal trade of elephant ivory and rhino horn that threatens the two species with extinction, said Kenyan conservationist Paula Kahumbu... READ MORE›
'A GIANT OF CONSERVATION': TOP INVESTIGATOR OF IVORY TRADE KILLED IN KENYA
Conservationist Paula Kahumbu said Martin led investigations into the illegal trade of elephant ivory and rhino horn that threatens the two species with extinction... READ MORE›
HK BANS IVORY TRADE IN 'HISTORIC' VOTE
Hong Kong's lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to ban the trade in ivory, in a move campaigners described as a lifeline for elephants ... READ MORE›
A KINGPIN SMUGGLED IVORY TUSKS AND RHINO HORNS FOR YEARS, POLICE SAY. THE SUSPECT WAS FINALLY CAUGHT.
Days before Boonchai's arrest, Thai authorities seized 326 pounds of African elephant ivory, including three large tusks, worth around 469,800 from a Bangkok airport... READ MORE›
GABON SAYS MAJOR IVORY-TRAFFICKING RING DISMANTLED, 10 HELD
Well-protected elephant populations are recovering in some parks in Gabon, including along the Atlantic coast, according to White... READ MORE›
CHINA FULLY CLOSES DOOR ON IVORY TRADE
Recently, many customers seized their last opportunity to buy ivory products at the store... READ MORE›
CHINA ENTERS 2018 WITH IVORY BAN IN FORCE
We can start 2018 hopeful that elephants will be safer now that China has banned commercial ivory sales, he said... READ MORE›
CHINA BAN ON DOMESTIC IVORY SALES COMES INTO FORCE
China, one of the world's biggest markets for African ivory, announced last year that it would outlaw all domestic trade and processing by the end of 2017... READ MORE›
CHINA'S BAN ON IVORY 'WILL GREATLY REDUCE ELEPHANT POACHING'
In 2014, Yao Ming proposed to the National People's Congress that ivory sales be banned in China... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : David Daballen
CHINA IS LOSING ITS TASTE FOR IVORY
Good news for Africa's elephants China is losing its taste for ivory... READ MORE›
'WE RECALCULATED ABOUT 1,000 TIMES BECAUSE WE DIDN'T BELIEVE WHAT WE WERE SEEING'
When world-renowned elephant expert Iain Douglas-Hamilton conducted the first aerial survey of Tanzania in 1976, the country had 316,000 elephants, the largest pachyderm population on the planet... READ MORE›
CHINA SAYS IT WILL SHUT DOWN IVORY TRADE BY END OF 2017
Post to Facebook China says it will shut down ivory trade by end of 2017 The move is designed to curb the mass slaughter of African elephants... READ MORE›
BRING IN A TOTAL BAN ON IVORY SALES, 100 POLITICIANS, CONSERVATIONISTS AND CELEBRITIES SAY
Open letter the british government must take global leadership with a 'total ban' on the ivory tradeA... READ MORE›
EU SET TO BAN RAW IVORY EXPORTS FROM JULY
The EU needs to take responsibility and finally ban its own ivory trade as well as all exports... READ MORE›
'IF WE STOPPED POACHING TOMORROW, ELEPHANTS WOULD STILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE'
Every year, around 100 people and 40 to 50 elephants are killed as a result in India, for example... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S LAST AFRICAN ELEPHANT DIES AT DUBBO ZOO
Australia's last African elephant dies in the Taronga Western Plains Zoo, after arriving 40 years ago... READ MORE›
BORIS JOHNSON BACKS 'ALL-OUT BAN' ON IVORY SALES
Animal rights campaigners believe laws to regulate the ivory trade are ineffective and perpetuate illicit sales, driving rhino and elephant poaching... READ MORE›
BID FOR STRONGEST PROTECTION FOR ALL AFRICAN ELEPHANTS DEFEATED AT WILDLIFE SUMMIT
On Monday a proposal to add the elephants in Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana to appendix 1 was defeated... READ MORE›
CHINA TO BAN IVORY TRADE WITHIN A YEAR OR SO, AS PRESSURE MOUNTS ON HONG KONG
Wildlife groups say Hong Kong's legal ivory trade provides cover for a vast illegal trade that is fueling a poaching crisis decimating elephant herds in Africa... READ MORE›
FIVE ELEPHANTS WERE SLAIN WHILE THE WORLD MOURNS CECIL THE LION
Poachers killed five elephants in Tsavo West National Park on Monday night... READ MORE›
WORLD'S NATIONS AGREE ELEPHANT IVORY MARKETS MUST CLOSE
International pressure to close domestic ivory markets is building... READ MORE›
FAMILY OF BRITON KILLED BY ELEPHANT POACHERS LAUNCH ?1M IVORY APPEAL
Up to 100 elephants are killed every day in Africa, Max Gower said... READ MORE›
AS THE WORLD MOURNED THE DEATH OF CECIL THE LION, FIVE ENDANGERED ELEPHANTS WERE KILLED IN KENYA
As the world mourned the death of Cecil the lion, five endangered elephants were killed in Kenya... READ MORE›
AFRICAN ELEPHANT NUMBERS PLUMMET DURING 'WORST DECLINE IN 25 YEARS'
In 1989 Cities banned international trade in ivory by listing all African elephant populations in its appendix 1... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN INDIA AS HUMAN AND WILDLIFE HABITATS COLLIDE
Data shows that about one person has been killed on average every day for the past three years by roaming tigers or rampaging elephants... READ MORE›
GPS IN FAKE TUSKS TRACKS IVORY POACHING TO TERRORISTS
The National Geographic investigation, Tracking Ivory, used fake tusks with GPS implants to track the trade route. Journalist Bryan Christy reports... READ MORE›
FIVE ELEPHANTS WERE SLAIN WHILE THE WORLD MOURNS CECIL THE LION
Poachers killed five elephants in Tsavo West National Park on Monday night... READ MORE›
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH CALLS ON CHINESE PRESIDENT TO END IVORY TRADE
And a group of broadcasters, conservationists and MPs have called on the Chinese president to end his country's ivory trade and save African elephants from extinction... READ MORE›
ACTIVISTS HOPE U.S. ACTION HALTS AFRICAN IVORY TRADE IN ITS TRACKS
Across the city Harriet Wilson cares for baby elephants orphaned by ivory poachers... READ MORE›
ELEPHANTS ARE THE END OF A 60M-YEAR LINEAGE - LAST OF THE MEGAHERBIVORES
The 20,000-year-old pygmy elephants of the Mediterranean islands may appear as fantastical as the woolly mammoths which still ambled across one Alaskan island just 5,600 years ago... READ MORE›
AFRICAN 'BLOOD IVORY' DESTROYED IN NEW YORK TO SIGNAL CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL TRADE
Kelly Aylward, director of the Washington office of the Wildlife Conservation Society, countered that such events demonstrate the ivory has no monetary value... READ MORE›
KENYA SETS FIRE TO HUGE IVORY STOCKPILE
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to a huge stockpile of ivory in an effort to show his country's commitment to saving Africa's elephants... READ MORE›
EVGENY LEBEDEV RETURNS TO AFRICA TO FIND OUT HOW THE BATTLE AGAINST THE POACHERS IS BEING FOUGHT AND WON
The President has already dispatched wildlife rangers to the Central African Republic to protect that country's elephants from warlord bands... READ MORE›
UK TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IVORY SALES
Maintaining domestic ivory markets helps fuel the illegal killing of thousands of elephants... READ MORE›
KENYA TO BURN BIGGEST EVER STOCKPILE OF IVORY
Four countries - Kenya, Gabon, Uganda and Botswana - have among them more than half of Africa's remaining elephants... READ MORE›
AFTER CECIL THE LION, ZIMBABWEANS WORRY ABOUT LOSING ELEPHANTS TO CHINA
After cecil the lion zimbabweans worry about losing elephants to china... READ MORE›
AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS FACE WORST DROP IN 25 YEARS
Africa's elephant population has suffered its largest drop in 25 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN has said, blaming the plummeting numbers on poaching... READ MORE›
CHINA BANS IVORY CARVING IMPORTS FOR A YEAR
Authorities impose temporary ban amid criticism that China is driving slaughter of African elephants, but wildlife groups say domestic ivory trade needs tackling... READ MORE›
$9M US WORTH OF IVORY SEIZED IN HONG KONG'S BIGGEST TUSK BUST IN 30 YEARS
Customs officers displayed samples of the tusks piled on the floor at their offices close to some of Hong Kong's giant container ports... READ MORE›