An undercover investigation into the trafficking of ivory from elephants and other wild animal parts has found the widespread ...

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.

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 ...

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

Pins, brooches and religious figurines. And two pairs of whole, raw tusks nearly seven feet long. All are made from or contain illegal elephant ivory. All were seized by law enforcement in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

The material can be 3D-printed and polished to create deceptively authentic carvings ... used for eating, ivory tusks are teeth that have emerged beyond the lips, giving elephants an evolutionary ...