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Kenya, long at the forefront of efforts to shut the ivory trade down completely, last week torched thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns. Proposals for the meeting in Johannesburg were made ...

There is more illegal ivory than elephants in three key ivory trading countries in West Africa, according to a new report launched today by TRAFFIC and WWF. Gland, Switzerland - There is more illegal ...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a ...

Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo were arrested outside of Seattle last week on charges that they shipped ivory and white rhinoceros horn to the United States and had plans to send more, ...

President Ali Bongo set a pyre of ivory aflame on June 27 in a symbolic warning to poachers in Gabon: We will fight to protect our elephants. He publicly ignited a total of 4,825 kilograms (about ...

In huge boost for Africa’s elephants, China will close down its domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017. Beijing, China, 30 December 2016 – WWF and TRAFFIC welcomed today’s historic announcement that ...

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