WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. Researchers used analysis of ...

Royal Malaysian Customs have made its largest ever seizure of ivory in transit through the country, finding 1,500 pieces of tusks hidden in wooden crates purpose-built to look like stacks of sawn ...

Several African countries have made great strides in clamping down on ivory smuggling, with large seizures for the first time exceeding those made in prime destination Asia, UN wildlife regulator ...

Customs officials at Port Klang, Malaysia with part of a massive ivory seizure said to have originated from Togo (Photo © Elizabeth John / TRAFFIC) KUALA LUMPUR ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 7 Samuel K. Wasser, co-executive director of the Center for Environmental Forensic Science at the University of Washington, led the new work.

Mombasa, Kenya: Officials from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) were Wednesday at pains to explain why ivory smugglers are increasingly using the port of Mombasa.

In late June 2002, the container ship MOL Independence docked at a Singapore port after a voyage of almost a month from Durban in South Africa. On board was a consignment which had been on a far ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 2, 2010 (ENS) – Thai customs officials have seized two metric tonnes of elephant tusks hidden in pallets at Bangkok’s main airport, a customs department statement said ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK, ...