If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The buying and selling of illegal elephant ivory is a major problem online, and even ...

pure corpse oil, soil from seven cemeteries, tiger fur, elephant skin, and carved ivory. Business is good enough that he’s building a new temple, Wat Suanpah, modeled in part after Thailand’s ...

The siege is getting worse. African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than at any time since the worldwide ban on the ivory trade was adopted in 1989. Every 15 minutes, on average, an ...

ROMULUS, Mich. – Ivory jewelry made from elephant tusks was recently taken from a traveler at Detroit Metro Airport, officials said. A passenger from South Korea arrived at DTW on Monday (May 17 ...

Some African nations are again pushing to reopen the trade in ivory. However others are seeking the highest possible protections for all of Africa's elephants. Nature's emergency in five graphics ...

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 ...

Retailers generally displayed ivory and other elephant parts quite openly and rarely hesitated in disclosing smuggling techniques and other illegal activities to TRAFFIC staff posing as potential ...