Finally, some potentially great news for elephants from the British Government as they announce a UK ivory ban consultation!... READ MORE›
Signalling an end to the world's primary legal ivory market and a major boost to international efforts to tackle the elephant poaching crisis in Africa ... READ MORE›
Good news for Africa's elephants China is losing its taste for ivory... READ MORE›
There was also a realization that China's key role in the illicit ivory trade was damaging its image in Africa... READ MORE›
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›
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES, which took effect in 1975, banned the ivory trade in 1989... READ MORE›
A new trade analysis reveals the scale of Britain's role in the international ivory trade... READ MORE›
Open letter the british government must take global leadership with a 'total ban' on the ivory tradeA... READ MORE›
The EU needs to take responsibility and finally ban its own ivory trade as well as all exports... READ MORE›
Animal rights campaigners believe laws to regulate the ivory trade are ineffective and perpetuate illicit sales, driving rhino and elephant poaching... READ MORE›
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›
Prices of raw ivory in Vietnam have fallen, which traders are linking to China's announcement of its domestic ivory ban, according to new research... READ MORE›
International pressure to close domestic ivory markets is building... READ MORE›
The Chinese government has sponsored awareness campaigns highlighting the perils facing elephants, and officials destroyed six tons of illegal ivory last year... READ MORE›
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›
Many elephants, particularly in the forests of central Africa, are not only targeted for their ivory... READ MORE›
It is true that elephants are endangered, but the art of ivory carving is in greater danger... READ MORE›
Across the city Harriet Wilson cares for baby elephants orphaned by ivory poachers... READ MORE›
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›
Maintaining domestic ivory markets helps fuel the illegal killing of thousands of elephants... READ MORE›
Beijing Ivory Carving Factory is one of the companies that will close in the coming months... READ MORE›
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›
African bloody ivory confiscated from new york and philadelphia crushed in times square to show intolerance for elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade... READ MORE›
A booming illegal wildlife trade has put huge pressure on an existing treaty signed by more than 180 countries... READ MORE›
Malaysia has previously announced in parliament that 4,624 ivory tusks were confiscated between 2011 and 2014... READ MORE›
Two geographical 'hotspots' in Africa account for 85 per cent of illegal elephant poaching, DNA study finds... READ MORE›
Poaching drives huge 30 percent decline in Africa's savannah elephants... READ MORE›
China also permits trade from a one-time, CITES-approved purchase by China and Japan of an ivory stockpile from several African countries in 2008... READ MORE›
The UK is putting elephants at risk of extinction through its broken promises on the ivory trade, according to campaigners... READ MORE›
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, a wildlife-advocacy group in Africa, has been working for years to turn China against the ivory trade... READ MORE›
Six tons of illegal ivory was pulverised last year in the southern city of Dongguan, and Chinese courts have stepped up prosecution of illegal ivory trade... READ MORE›
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