Since the tusk is deeply implanted in an elephant’s skull, fully extracting it is significantly more complicated. While it could technically be possible to sedate an elephant and remove its tusk ...

Thirty large mammal specialists traveled from South Africa, India and other zoos across America last week to perform the last phase of tusk removal surgery for Ali, a 34-year-old elephant at the ...

A male elephant’s tusks are bigger and heavier than those ... that high levels of poaching pressure can do more than just remove individuals from a population,” says Ryan Long, a behavioral ...

“We appreciate the efforts of the Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior to remove barriers to sustainable ... The ivory from an elephant's tusks is estimated to be worth $21,000 ...

The tea had been replaced with elephant tusks—1,700 of them ... The kingpins sit removed from it all. They often try to outsmart customs officials by shipping the ivory from a neighboring ...

It's a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa's nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have ...

"We blocked or removed over 265,000 listings prohibited ... From 6 June, trade in elephant teeth and tusks is illegal in the UK, punishable by fines of up to £250,000 or up to five years in ...