On the outside of one case is a bumper sticker bearing the Elephant Monk’s face. Most of the ivory is Thai. “That is African,” the Elephant Monk says, pointing to a piece that’s especially ...

The siege is getting worse. African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than at any time since the worldwide ban on the ivory trade was adopted in 1989. Every 15 minutes, on average, an ...

Our team of African elephant conservation and survey data analysis experts ... Declining elephant numbers are not surprising, ...

we discuss the unrelenting slaughter of African elephants for their ivory. In the United States, import of African elephant ivory has been prohibited—via the African Elephant Conservation Act— since ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...

According to reports, the African elephant population declined greatly in the 1970s and 1980s due to the ivory trade. Thus, the international trade of elephant ivory was banned in 1989.

The TRAFFIC/WWF report, More Ivory than Elephants: Domestic Ivory Markets in Three West African Countries, highlights that these unregulated markets are the principal forces driving elephant poaching.

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

“Human demand for ivory is fueling alarming decreases in African savannah and forest elephant populations, so measures like this are crucial to giving these magnificent animals a fighting chance for a ...

Even President Trump called elephant trophy hunting a ‘horror show,’ and ... live trade in elephants and the continued need to close domestic ivory markets. African Elephants. Kenya, June 2022. Credit ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for food whilst foraging for a diet of grasses, roots, fruit and bark, males however ...