This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK ...

Legal markets present significant enforcement and resource challenges to governments, including the need to better secure ...

But the big profit is made in Asia. Thai Customs recently evaluated smuggled ivory as being worth $1,800 per kilogram—$18,000 per elephant—wholesale. The “street value” retail price of 10 kilograms of ...

"But tribal tusks weren't necessarily elaborately carved." Beginning in the ... Ultimately, of course, the appetite for ivory spelled doom for Africa's elephant herds. In an attempt to curb ...

You can also import worked (carved) ivory acquired before Feb 4 ... The rules for importation of Asian elephant ivory are different still. (Confused yet?) Last September, Victor Gordon, the owner of ...

Traders might claim elephant ivory is mammoth ivory to ... especially if the ivory had been carved into an ornament, he said. It was also not practical to ask for a product to be sawn in half ...