A press conference about Pa. House Bill 994, which would prohibit the purchase and sale of products made from at-risk animal ...

Three hundred eighty-three ivory items from animals, including elephants, hippos, and whales, were seized from 60 locations ...

A major investigation is exposing the illegal sale of ivory in Pennsylvania, including in the Pittsburgh area.

A Pa. House Bill is under consideration to stop the sale of at-risk animal parts in. Under cover investigation shows why.

Some tusks are from young elephants — representing generations ... before sawing off their tusks. The seized ivory includes ornate carvings. A pair of 18-inch-tall Asian ivory figurines ...

Gabe Witgil of Humane World for Animals said states must close legal loopholes that allow illicit animal parts markets to ...

Q I inherited a small collection of ivory figurines that were purchased in ... This ban was intended to both protect elephants and eliminate the huge underground market for poachers.

Steven Hirsch Through Merces, Hu, 45, of Flushing, Queens, and Wu, 33, of Great Neck, advertised and sold elephant ivory carvings, including carved tusks, evading detection by advertising their ...

The elephants could be nearly extinct by 2020 ... said it is not unusual to find ivory carvings in Buddhist temples or the homes of politicians or high-ranking police and military officers ...

“This is the best,” the Daxin Ivory Carving Factory’s Feng tells me, holding up a chunk of forest elephant tusk. Carvings made from forest elephant ivory sell out so quickly that customers ...

Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces Ben Booth 2 / 2 ...