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From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...

"We believe the accused are part of a larger ... smuggling network." Officials uncover elephant tusks during undercover ...

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 ...

2 of 7 — Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when ...

Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year, and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that there is an urgent need to stop the killing. But ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

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 ...

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

An Oklahoma man was sentenced to one year in federal prison for his involvement in transporting stolen African elephant ivory tusks to Tyler for sale. Dusty Caudill, 37, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, pleaded ...