One find in particular stuck with him: a pair of teeth—the ... black market ivory was fetching $1,000 a pound in Beijing. That year alone, an estimated 22,000 African elephants were poached.

They were even able to determine the 17 West African herds the elephants once belonged to. Because the Portuguese were known to maintain extensive trading routes through the Kongo Kingdom, the ...

That’s the ivory of 24,000 elephants. It is likely ... Modestly trained and equipped African rangers are facing very sophisticated poaching gangs that are armed to the teeth with assault rifles and ...

especially the African elephant, have been the death of too many of them. The elephant’s tusks are made of ivory, which is ...

GENEVA— In a long-awaited move, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced today that elephants in Africa face a serious risk of ... Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened ...

The global ivory trade is fuelling the elephant poaching crisis, with around 55 African elephants killed for their tusks every day. Now, we're starting to see progress around the world to tackle this ...

live trade in elephants and the continued need to close domestic ivory markets. African Elephants. Kenya, June 2022. Credit: Tanya Sanerib, Center for Biological Diversity Image is available for media ...