Kim Akerman plucks a small, creamy hand-carved figurine from a handmade ... The rush was further fuelled by domestic bans on the sale of elephant ivory in the United States and China in 2016 ...

Federal prosecutors have offered a Tallahassee auctioneer a chance to make a plea deal on six misdemeanor counts of exporting elephant ivory ... Act by exporting carved ivory products overseas ...

From kitschy trinkets to carved tusks ... including a "Japanese ivory erotica figurine" listed for $600 in San Diego and a footstool made from an elephant leg and covered in zebra or antelope ...

which is also the main destination for illegal elephant ivory. Poachers kill some 30,000 elephants a year for their tusks, many of which get carved into pricey art and trinkets, just like mammoth ...

In the article beginning on page 6, we discuss the unrelenting slaughter of African elephants for their ivory. In the United States, import of African elephant ... (carved) ivory acquired before Feb 4 ...

The Elephant Monk takes in thousands of dollars a month from amulets of ivory and other materials sold in his temple gift shop. In China, religious themes are common in carved ivory pieces.

Roberts and fellow researcher Sofia Venturini found that some descriptions of netsuke — carved objects which are often made of elephant ivory and attached to Japanese kimonos — are ...

Two elaborately carved elephant tusks stand inside a display case at the Canton Bazaar in San Francisco's Chinatown, elegant reminders of a tragic, escalating world crisis. Booming global sales of ...

According to officials, Victor Gordon acquired over 400 pieces of carved elephant ivory valued at around $800,000. On four occasions beginning in 2006, Gordon paid a smuggler to acquire the ivory ...

The DSWT rescues and hand-rears milk-dependent orphaned baby ... with the ultimate parody of art being seen as a carved ivory elephant family being sold in the Middle East.