“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 ...

While trading/procuring elephant ivory is illegal ... especially once specimens have become worked or carved. In this new study, scientists from Bristol's School of Anatomy and Lancaster Medical ...

You can also import worked (carved) ivory acquired before Feb 4 ... The rules for importation of Asian elephant ivory are different still. (Confused yet?) Last September, Victor Gordon, the owner of ...

The US-based environmental organisation WildAid estimates that more than 30,000 elephants are killed every year in Africa for their tusks. The ivory is often carved into ornaments and jewellery ...