Bangkok, Thailand - Legal loopholes and insufficient law enforcement mean that Thailand continues to harbour the largest illegal ivory market in Asia, says a new report from the wildlife trade ...

PHOENIX – The Phoenix Zoo was selected alongside two other zoos to host an event that is aimed at raising awareness and reducing the demand of illegal ivory products. The Toss the Tusk event will ...

At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory. International trade in elephant ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil With a demand for exotic felines on the rise, often driven ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Is a world without the illicit wildlife trade possible? One where no species faces imminent extinction at the hands of humans? Perhaps – with new technology, and consensus among origin and destination ...

The World Wildlife Fund says every year, 20,000 elephants are killed for their tusks, which fetch high prices overseas. Officials in Nigeria gathered to watch more than $11 million in contraband be ...