Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beijing: China has announced a one-year suspension on imports of carved ivory products from Africa, but conservationists said the ...

Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on imports of ivory carvings as critics say rising Chinese demand threatens African elephants with extinction, but campaigners described the move as "more symbolic ...

London’s V&A museum is seeking donations to purchase a fine ivory carving that is likely to have been made in York, in North Yorkshire, and which the museum characterizes as “one of the finest and ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on imports of ivory carvings, but questions remained Friday on its effect on rising Chinese demand, which critics say could push wild African ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in France, ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Police raided secret ivory carving workshops in central Thailand, seizing an allegedly illegal haul of elephant and walrus tusks, authorities and a conservation group said Wednesday.

Despite an international ban on trade in ivory, elephants are still illegally hunted for their tusks. Up to 35,000 were killed for ivory in 2011 alone, in many cases to create religious artefacts.

The palm-sized carving depicts a Neolithic woman wearing an ornate headpiece. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What it is: A ...