Bill DuVall of Newton, currently has his beautiful collection of soapstone and ivory carvings on display at ... Ivory is most often from elephant tusks, but can also be from bones or tusks of ...

It is noteworthy that most of the ivory carved in India actually came from the Portuguese colonies in Africa ... A hard white substance that is a variety of dentin, ivory makes up the tusks of such ...

The hunters sell the ivory from the tusks. The USA wants to stop this. It wants to protect elephants. On Thursday, the U.S. government burnt 6,000 kilograms of ivory. This included carvings and ...

has killed 100,000 African elephants in three years. The paper said that because the temporary ban prohibits only the import of ivory carvings, it does not affect China’s legal domestic ivory trade, ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

Dashing hopes, availability of legal mammoth ivory has not reduced demand for illegal elephant ivory ... and a finely carved full-length tusk can cost a king’s ransom. At an antiques shop ...

"Initial eyewitness accounts indicate that the family parked close to the Malelane reception area and children ran past the bridge into the bush whereupon an individual elephant from a nearby herd ...

UK trade in ivory from hippos, narwhals, orcas and sperm whales has been banned as part of conservation efforts, the Government has said. The Ivory Act, introduced to protect elephants, has been ...

Achi has approached several institutions, including the Caisse nationale de prévoyance de sociale and Caisse de dépôts et de consignation (CDC) pension funds. The civil servants pension fund, Caisse ...