Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

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 ivory has been prohibited—via the ...

The siege is getting worse. African elephants are being killed at a greater rate than at any time since the worldwide ban on the ivory trade was adopted in 1989. Every 15 minutes, on average, an ...

The TRAFFIC/WWF report, More Ivory than Elephants: Domestic Ivory Markets in Three West African Countries, highlights that these unregulated markets are the principal forces driving elephant poaching.

Thailand allows internal trading of ivory from domesticated Asian elephants, and smuggled African ivory finds its way into the mix. Thailand has a small, natural population of Asian elephants ...

The illicit trade in ivory continues to rise due to flaws in trade regulations ... Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest ...

Surveying elephants across Africa has been a challenging and sporadic effort due to logistical difficulties, civil unrest, ...

In July, the United States implemented a near-total domestic ban on the trade in African elephant ivory. In addition, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to support ...

The United States implemented a near-total ban on the commercial trade of African elephant ivory in 2016. Arguing on Martinez’s behalf, Miami-based attorney Joseph Schuster said jurors were denied the ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...

African elephants exist in about 40 range states, while their Asian counterparts occupy about 13 range states. Ivory is one ...