Officials in India were able to stop a major attempt at an ivory smuggling operation, seizing two elephant tusks they found in a vehicle. The Dhemaji district police in the state of Assam, India, ...

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to decimate elephant populations. An international ban exists on the ivory trade, and ...