There is more illegal ivory than elephants in three key ivory trading countries in West Africa, according to a new report launched today by TRAFFIC and WWF.

Conservationists on Tuesday urged Thailand to end its legal trade in ivory to help curb the slaughter of African elephants by poachers cashing in on their highly-prized tusks.While it is illegal to ...

* Illegal factory closed, 41 people arrested * Rhino poaching hit 15-yr high in 2009, according to WWF * Ivory demand in Asia encouraging poachers PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Police seized $1 ...

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 ...

Ivory sales are banned in most countries since the 1980s under an international treaty to help conserve elephants.

WWF-Vietnam says tour operators and travel agencies must help educate tourists, so they do not support the ivory trade. The organisation wants everyone to work together to protect wildlife and ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Wildlife conservationists say two African nations are taking strong steps against the illegal ivory trade. WWF said in a Friday statement the Central African nation of Gabon ...

Large trees in the African bush capture CO2. IBM's predictive AI technology will allow WWF track and protect the African forest elephants who help large trees can grow.

Forest elephants in Cameroon and the Congo Basin could be extinct within 10 years without measures to fight the illegal ivory trade and curb habitat loss, a WWF official said in an interview.<BR ...