The federal government is moving to ban virtually all sales of items containing African elephant ... that billiard cue or pocket knife they're buying was made with sanctioned or illegal ivory.

By 1910, the elephant population had dropped to the point where billiard-ball makers, among others, were getting acutely worried about the ivory supply. Right around then, a chemist named Leo ...

Historically used in billiard balls, piano keys and even ... Unfortunately, the value people have attached to elephant ivory has also fueled conflict and been linked to organized crime ...

Eastern Africa has been a major source of elephant ivory for millennia ... Desirable objects such as cutlery-handles, piano keys and billiard balls drove the extension of global trade networks ...

Elephant poaching levels are currently ... Although the world has found substitutes for every one of ivory’s practical uses—billiard balls, piano keys, brush handles—its religious use ...

The year was 1863, and famous billiard player Michael Phelan was ... At the time, the spheres were hand-carved straight out of elephant tusks, ivory being about the toughest material the animal ...

Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and Yincheng Wu allegedly ...

Kerner, a longtime a leader in the billiards industry ... "You can have beautiful cues without ivory in them." The elephant ivory, in the form of ivory pool cues, was worth about $70,000 ...

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

Even though the country now faces backlash from experts over its decision, the environment ministry has defended itself by saying that “India has never supported trade in elephant ivory”.

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - An undercover investigation by the Humane Society revealed the illicit sale of elephant ivory at stores in Connecticut. The Humane Society of the United States and Humane ...