WWF and TRAFFIC congratulate the Central African Republic's decision to independently audit its ivory stocks. To send a signal to the world it is serious about fighting poaching and illegal wildlife ...

Telling the difference between an elephant, hippo, and warthog may seem like an easy task, even for the youngest wildlife observers. But if you take away their trunks, ears, and snouts and look only ...

GENEVA -- International trade in elephant ivory will remain banned, according to a vote at the World Wildlife Conference, known as CITES. Thursday's vote by a key committee makes it likely the plenary ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Soldiers in Cameroon are losing the battle to save the last elephants in a remote frontier park from marauding horsemen believed to be invading from Sudan, the World Wildlife Fund ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Namibia and Zimbabwe failed on Monday to convince a U.N. body on Monday that they should be allowed to export ivory - something they had argued would protect rather than ...

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 ...

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would allow Alaska Natives to continue sales of traditional ivory art in ...