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NAIROBI, Kenya — Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has made a 3-minute animated short called Last Days, telling the story of ivory poaching and the threat it poses to elephants. The film begins in ...

Tanzanian authorities announced on Monday that they had seized 1.4 tons of elephant tusks and arrested a group of major international ivory dealers in Dar es Salaam, the country’s largest city. The ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or possibly as teaching aids to help them produce utensils of their own. Discovered ...

NANJING, China — Environmentalists worried about the fate of Africa’s dwindling elephant population cheered when China announced a ban on the sale of commercial ivory last year, but an increasingly ...