strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability. Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and ...

Global demand for ivory is rising, and illegal trafficking has been accelerating to keep pace. Between 2010 and 2012 poachers killed more than 100,000 African elephants to supply the black market ...

A new study finds that the number of elephants dying from poaching is declining, with a mortality rate of 10% in 2011 falling to 4% in 2017. The cause? Reduced ivory demand, specifically from ...

Wasser's laboratory has developed DNA tools that can determine which elephant population ivory came from. That is important because often poachers attack elephants in one country but ship the ...

The large cache worries anti-poaching experts trying to protect the African elephant from extinction. Allen Crawford, who tracks ivory poaching for the wildlife monitoring group Traffic ...

Individual countries continued to regulate their domestic ivory trade. Poaching slowed, and elephant populations began to recover. African governments kept stockpiles of ivory harvested from ...

Almost a third of Africa’s elephants have been illegally slaughtered by poachers in the past ten years to meet demand for ivory in Asia, where there is still a booming trade in the material ...

poaching is the single-biggest reason for elephants dying in such large numbers. While the trade in illegal ivory has reduced significantly in Europe and North America, the demand from Asia has ...

JOHANNESBURG – Authorities in Africa hunted down one of their biggest trophies to date last week -- an ivory-trafficking mastermind they say is at the center of a trade that has seen more than ...

Elephant poaching is more than just an environmental crime—it is a tragedy that tears apart the fabric of entire ecosystems. Poachers, driven by the lucrative ivory trade, often leave behind ...