Rebecca Shepherd receives funding from EPSRC and the FCDO. In recent years, the global trade in elephant ivory has faced significant restrictions in an effort to protect dwindling elephant populations ...

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have found a new method to help police distinguish between elephant and mammoth ivory. International trade in elephant ivory was banned by the Convention on ...

Q: How do wildlife officers tell the difference between elephant ivory and other animals that have ivory such as whales or even warthogs? A: In a forensics lab. When Assembly Bill 96 was signed (now ...

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 ...