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Australia to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2019

‘Let us trade’: Debate over ivory sales rages ahead of CITES summit

Busani Bafana 11 Jul 2019
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

China seizes over 2,700 elephant tusks in massive bust

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2019

Kenya on the brink of acquitting ivory trafficker number four (commentary)

Chris Morris 10 Apr 2019

Elephant in the room: Botswana deals with pachyderm population pressure

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2019

Trouble in Botswana’s elephant paradise as poaching said to rise

Johan Augustin 5 Mar 2019

Chinese ‘Queen of Ivory’ sentenced to 15 years in jail for tusk trafficking

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2019

China busts major ivory trafficking gang following EIA investigation

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jan 2019

Vietnam’s illegal ivory market continues to thrive, report finds

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2019

Singapore proposes total ivory ban, calls for public feedback

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New research measures impacts of China’s elephant ivory trade ban

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2018

Wildlife detectives link smuggled African elephant ivory to 3 major cartels

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Sep 2018

87 elephants found dead in Botswana, one of last safe havens for the species

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2018

The appeal acquittal of Feisal Mohamed Ali: A victory for rule of law, a process corrupted, or both? (commentary)

Chris Morris 17 Aug 2018

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Fingerprinting technology gives investigators an edge against pangolin traffickers

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

New technology leads to the arrest of eight people suspected of trafficking wildlife parts

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

Owner of South African hunting company indicted by US prosecutors over illegal elephant hunt

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Will China’s new ban on the ivory trade help or hurt? (Commentary)

Karl Ammann 16 May 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

Conservationist known as a caretaker for Kenya’s orphaned elephants dies at 83

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018

Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

Scientists deploy DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating in latest salvo against ivory trafficking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Feb 2018

Hong Kong votes to ban ivory trade by 2021

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Taufik Wijaya 11 Jan 2018
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Ivory trade in China is now banned

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2018

Ivory is out in the UK, as government moves to shutter legal trade

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2017

Central Africa’s ivory trade shifts underground, according to new report

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2017

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