With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion into the north Atlantic to Iceland ...

By analyzing samples of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) tusk ivory collected by Norse explorers in Greenland and later exported to Europe for trade, archaeologists have pinpointed ...

Ivory poaching has driven large-scale declines over relatively short periods of time in Africa. Stemming the ivory trade has proven difficult as it requires global recognition and action. Over the ...

A communication campaign highlighting the illegality of ivory product trade is being rolled out in Vietnam, targeting ...

The occasion was the official presentation to the Library of Congress of A Dangerous Life, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Sheila Hamanaka and published by AWI and the Kenya Wildlife ...

Scientists used strontium isotopes in Misha the elephant’s teeth to track her movements, revealing a method to study ancient ...

By the year 700, trade between Borneo and China was flourishing, and in 1371 helmeted hornbill “ivory” was first recorded as reaching China as a tribute gift from the sultan of Brunei.

“Dormidostyle,” he says approvingly. My goal in meeting Garcia is to understand his country’s ivory trade and possibly get a lead on who was behind 5.4 tons of illegal ivory seized by ...

Vietnam has launched a public awareness campaign highlighting the illegality of ivory trade, specifically targeting ...

The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...