(Kazuhiro NOGI/AFP/AFP) At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory.

Illegal carved ivory (photograph by Bill Butcher, via U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Northeast Region) These episodes mark the first time there’s been public destruction of ivory in non-African ...

— -- A newly expanded ivory ban on eBay highlights the challenge of running a global marketplace while complying with local laws. eBay has decided to stop all sales of ivory products on its ...

Research has shown that conservation campaigns could turn the tide on the illegal ivory trade if they focused less on themes of 'guilt' and more on why people want to buy ivory in the first place.

The Secretariat for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has issued a cautious response to Namibia’s proposal to sell its government-owned ivory ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders. It ...