Faking the stuff of elephant tusks could benefit wildlife conservation and engineering—yet many technical hurdles remain Sasha Mushegian Any faithful recreation of elephant ivory must be hard, strong ...
ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Visitors to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park can play a role in elephant conservation next week by bringing any personal items made of ivory to the park and surrendering them in an ...
They were called the ivory wars. In the 1980s, at least 700,000 elephants, and possibly as many as 1 million, were slaughtered throughout Africa, killed by hunters and poachers for their ivory tusks, ...
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The Critical Role of Elephants in Ecosystem Balance (and What Might Happen Without Them)
Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans ...
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, ...
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently broke up an alleged illegal poaching front in Los Angeles ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. Researchers used analysis of ...
Hunters find the ancient tusks clustered on sandbars near the Arctic Ocean, carried there by spring melt waters flowing from the Siberian tundra. A pair of them, dried, polished and elegantly mounted ...
Armed with tips from animal welfare activists, I recently went on an ivory hunt with my Chinese assistant, Yang, in an antiques market in Beijing. Activists say China's growing purchasing power is ...
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 ...
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